Birds Make Good Neighbors

Birds Make Good Neighbors
Studio album by The Rosebuds
Released September 13, 2005
Recorded April-May 2005 at Jujitsu Studios, Carrboro, NC
Genre Indie pop
Length 36:35
Label Merge Records (CD)
Goodnight Records (LP)
Producer Brian Paulson
The Rosebuds chronology

The Rosebuds Unwind
(2005)		 Birds Make Good Neighbors
(2005)		 Night of the Furies
(2007)
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Entertainment Weekly (A-)
Pitchfork Media (8.1/10) link

Birds Make Good Neighbors is the second album by North Carolina indie rock band The Rosebuds. It was released on September 13, 2005 by Merge Records on CD, and one week later on vinyl by Goodnight Records.

It received generally positive reviews, with a score of 78/100 on Metacritic.

Track listing

  1. "Hold Hands and Fight" – 2:47
  2. "Boxcar" – 3:39
  3. "Leaves Do Fall" – 3:53
  4. "Wildcat" – 2:39
  5. "The Lovers' Rights" – 2:22
  6. "Blue Bird" – 4:26
  7. "Outnumbered" – 2:57
  8. "Shake Our Tree" – 2:43
  9. "Let Us Go" – 3:54
  10. "Warm Where You Lay" – 2:53
  11. "4-Track Love Song" – 4:16

Personnel