“There was an unmistakable sense of momentum being gained as Merrill Garbus took her tUnE-yArDs songs out on the road following the 2009 release of BiRd-BrAiNs. The lo-fi nature of those recordings initially sounded like they might make an awkward transition to live performance, but instead the opposite was true; Garbus wrung new life out of each track and seemed to accrue more confidence with each”
