Phoebe Bridgers' guitarist Harrison Whitford details new project, Attention Bird Utopia

The album announcement is accompanied by the release of lead single, "Infinity Inside A Shopping Cart". Speaking of the single, Whitford says: "This song is a collage. It’s about trying to make sense of things that don’t make sense, and the non-linear nature of lived experience in spite of the construct of linear time. It’s also about whatever you want it to be. Eli and I set up a few mics, I recorded the piano and then he jumped on the drums. From there, we did everything else. The guitar solo has vertigo. Enjoy."

Attention Bird Utopia’s genesis begins when Eli Hirsch was executive producing Suki Waterhouse’s 2024 album, Memoir of A Sparklemuffin at his studio in Los Angeles and Harrison Whitford dropped in on an afternoon recording session.

Whitford started coming over to Eli’s home studio to blow off steam while playing chess. While both in-demand collaborators, they both shared a sense of restlessness about their own songwriting — they realised that years could go by only working on other peoples records, ignoring their own creative impulse. So they made a pact: they would meet every Friday to share new songwriting ideas, a kind of accountability exercise. These hangs quickly escalated into a collection of new songs. While they had a deeply ingrained shared musical language, their artistic approaches, as Eli recounts, were perfect counterbalances: “For me, Harry's notes were usually about things not needing to be so literal — he’s definitely a poet. And my notes for Harry were usually structure related, like how to shape the song.”

Tracklist:

1. Infinity Inside a Shopping Cart
2. Stage Name
3. One Step at a Time
4. Brother, Oh Brother
5. Best of Kings
6. Cary
7. Beck’s Eyes
8. A Company of Hamsters
9. I’ll Come Find You