Early highlights of New York City-based singer-songwriter and firefighter (yes you read that right!) Tim Barr’s career include playing bass for Lana Del Rey during the Lizzy Grant era and fronting the late 2000s band Recluse. Tim formed the band Silverbird in 2013. Around this time, he had an opportunity to study with Mike Longo, who was the pianist for the late great Dizzy Gillespie. It was Mike Longo that helped shape Tim’s musical philosophy.
In the summer of 2013, Tim met and formed a lasting musical partnership with UK-based producer Kristofer Harris, singer for Story Books and whose work also includes stints with Smoke Fairies and Belle and Sebastian. Harris produced and recorded both of Silverbird’s releases-2014’s Surface Life, and 2015’s Pureland. In 2015, Tim lived at the Fire Lotus Temple in Brooklyn. While practicing Zen he recorded the Monastery Demos, a collection of acoustic songs, which would later become the album Pureland. The debut single and video off of Pureland, “Running,” premiered in Noisey in 2015 and provided material for three consecutive years of CMJ concerts, two tours, and several placements, the most notable being “Hollow Heart,” which was featured in two separate episodes of ShoTime’s hit series Shameless.
In time, music videos were released for the Silverbird songs Sky, Smile, Hollow Heart, and Mountain, which have garnered almost a million views. Interviews and reviews have been featured in USA Today, CMJ, The Aquarian Weekly, Nylon, Line of Best Fit, Noisey and numerous other blogs from America, Europe, and Japan.
Glide is proud to premiere “Crimson Kid” – from the brave singer-songwriter, a punctuating song statement that combines hints of dream pop creativity and ethereal vocals. Barr melds”shades of Ride and Slowdive atop sweet and seductive floating melodies, creating a dreamy wave of harmony.
“Crimson Kid is about a desire for a secure and peaceful future. A future that is ungraspable yet free,” adds Barr. “There is no intent behind it. It’s a stream of conscious dreamscape or horror scape depending on how you look at it.”
