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Birds Of Tokyo

After emerging out of the Western Australian capital of Perth in the mid-2000s, Birds of Tokyo forged a career as one of the country's more dominant alternative rock bands, achieving mainstream success with 2008's Universes, then reaching number one with their 2013 release March Fires. A mix of soaring melodic pop and alt-rock muscle, the band nurtured their growing international audience and began recording and touring throughout North America and Europe. They took a grittier turn on 2016's Brace, but found even greater success with 2020's passionate Human Design, which became their second chart-topper. Founded in 2004 in Perth, Western Australia, Birds of Tokyo's initial lineup consisted of singer Ian Kenny (also of the band Karnivool), guitarist Adam Spark, bassist Anthony Jackson, and drummer Adam Weston. The group debuted in 2005 with an independent self-titled EP followed later in the year by the singles "One Way" and "Stay," the latter of which earned the band its first of many WAMI Awards (West Australian Music Industry Awards). Two years later, Birds of Tokyo's full-length debut, Day One, made a respectable ARIA chart showing at number 88 and won a pair of WAMI Awards. Released in 2008, it was their follow-up, Universes, that marked the band's mainstream breakthrough, peaking at number three on the Australian albums chart and topping the independent chart with the help of hit singles like "Broken Bones" and "Silhouettic." Touring the country accompanied by a string quartet, Birds of Tokyo offered up acoustic renditions of their songs on the Broken Strings Tour. Exercising their global muscle, the band recorded their eponymous third album between Sydney, New York, London, and Gothenburg, Sweden. Released by EMI in July of 2010, it included the hit singles “Plans” and “Wild at Heart,” and went on to receive double-platinum certification. Topping out at number two on the album chart, it went on to earn Birds of Tokyo an ARIA Award for Best Rock Album. Ahead of sessions in Los Angeles for a fourth album with producers David Cooley and Tony Hoffer, Birds of Tokyo brought two new players into the fold: keyboardist Glenn Sarangapany and bassist Ian Berney, who replaced founding member Jackson. Also during this period, Kenny, Spark, and Weston each left Perth behind, relocating to cities on the eastern coast of Australia, more or less cutting the band's ties with their home city. The resulting record, March Fires, appeared in early 2013 and became the band's first release to hit the number one spot in the Australian charts, eventually going gold. The success of March Fires opened up new doors for Birds of Tokyo internationally, and they spent much of 2014 in the U.S. with Los Angeles as their temporary home base. In between U.S. tours, they wrote and recorded four new songs which were released in April 2015 as the standalone EP Anchor. Trying out a dark and grittier rock & roll approach, fifth album Brace arrived in 2016 to a positive critical response. Their anthemic single "Unbreakable" served as the theme song to the 2018 Invictus Games in Sydney. It was later included on Birds of Tokyo's sixth studio album, Human Design, which became their second chart-topper in 2020.
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