Eiafuawn – Birds In The Ground

Birds In The Ground is the sole album by Eiafuawn, the solo project of Clay Parton from Duster, originally released in 2006 and reissued in 2024. Recorded at home over several years on analog four-track machines, the record layers fuzzy and clean guitars with hushed, hesitant vocals that sink into washes of noise and texture. It has the intimate, DIY feel of lo-fi indie and slowcore, marked by its melancholic atmosphere and reflective tone.

The songs balance fragility with grit, shifting between quiet, reverb-soaked passages and bursts of distortion. Tracks such as The Coffin Was So Light I Thought It Might Float Away highlight the interplay between noise and tenderness, offering a mood that is both unsettled and contemplative. Birds In The Ground stands as a deeply personal statement, a lo-fi gem that has only grown in stature since its release.

Reviews

“Birds in the Ground is a fuzzy set of DIY indie pop that’s struck through with the anxieties of a distant age.” — Boomkat

“Recorded alone at home over several years, Birds In The Ground is an album of 30-something, post-9/11 malaise. Under his Eiafuawn (Everything Is All Fucked Up And What Not) acronym, Parton hides beneath layers of fuzzy and clean guitars, his hesitant, cottony vocal disappear into noise.” — Numero Group