Press
"I can’t quite stress enough how heartbreaking and excellently executed this release is.
Highway Birches is the sort of album artists can go a whole career trying to write." -
AbsolutePunk
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Highway Birches perfectly condenses McCormack’s vocals and sparse instrumentation, giving room for the lyrics to really breathe." -
Counteract Magazine (UK)
"There's a sincerity to Yellowbirddd that makes his songs instantly likable." -
FrostClick
“His voice, aching with the strain of personal life, arched over the barriers of feelings we so often put up in public, and worked it’s way into the same part of the brain that makes the heart flutter or drop to your feet.” –
Tournesol Music Blog
“This Brooklyn-by-way-of-Boston lone wolf plays frail and beautiful with profound melancholy.” –
Rochester NY City Newspaper
“The best thing to happen to indie music since beards” –
A Life In Panels
“breathing embodiment of the DIY spirit” –
East Nashville Blog
“Its lyric-driven folk pop could be the soundtrack for twentysomethings in love, or about to be in love, with vivid, candid perspectives that find McCormack wading in a pool filled with cliches, and yet coming out dry.” –
Times Union NY