Artist Info: The Merlin Bird

Based in Melbourne Australia, The Merlin Bird play a distinctive brand of rock that reviewers have struggled to categorize. Their work contains elements of rock, folk and classical music, combined with lyrics that explore the worldly, the esoteric and the downright unfathomable.

Their debut EP Reason and Rhyme has been described by critics as “mythical”, “a thing of wonderment” and “shivers-down-the-spine good”. They have appeared with progressive rock luminaries Jethro Tull and Asia in Germany [read more...]