An Odyssey Sound Session with Attention Bird Utopia, the collaborative project of Harrison Whitford and Eli Hirsch. On their debut album, Best of Kings, the duo show off their songwriting mastery and clever instrumentation.

Attention Bird Utopia began when Eli Hirsch (Suki Waterhouse, Cautious Clay, Say Lou Lou) was executive producing Suki Waterhouse’s 2024 LP Memoir of A Sparklemuffin at his studio in Los Angeles, and Harrison Whitford (Phoebe Bridgers, Matt Berninger, Conor Oberst) dropped in on an afternoon recording session. The two hit it off, bonding over their love of similar music. In this episode they discuss their two personal playlists, featuring Jackson Browne, Elliott Smith and Jimi Hendrix.

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• 00:00 Intro
• 00:42 Talking about creating Attention Bird Utopia
• 03:33 Eli’s playlist begins with ‘These Days’ - Jackson Browne
• 06:11 ‘All Apologies’ - Nirvana
• 07:05 ‘Finishing the Hat’ - Stephen Sondheim
• 08:28 'The Nutcracker Op. 71, Act 2: Pas de deux’ - Tchaikovsky
• 09:33 ‘Why Can’t I?’ - Liz Phair
• 10:00 Harrison’s playlist begins with ‘Say Yes’ - Elliott Smith
• 12:19 ‘The Single Petal Of A Rose’ - Duke Ellington
• 16:20 ‘Little Wing’ - Jimi Hendrix
• 18:08 ‘Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again’ - Bob Dylan
• 19:42 ‘Skyway’ - The Replacements
• 23:08 Outro

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