Girl Swallows Nightingale Oakland, California
These bones carry stories and we reap them through song.
Girl Swallows Nightingale delivers
big, ambitious sound. The Oakland-based experimental pop/rock band crafts intricate song structures buoyed by infectious funk grooves and heady harmonies. Storytelling and performance are also central to their music; the band thrives where sensory planes intersect.
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