Attention Bird Utopia, the collaborative project of Harrison Whitford and Eli Hirsch, today share their debut album, Best of Kings, via their own imprint here, here recordings. BUY/STREAM VIA SPOTIFY, APPLE MUSIC, BANDCAMP, AND MORE NOW.

Throughout their debut album, Attention Bird Utopia soar through unassuming charm and abundant displays of casual songwriting mastery. An undiluted introduction to the potency of their songwriting partnership, “It’s a tale as old as time: two Jews writing music together,” Eli jokes, referencing a rich history of such collaborations, the album sees the pair prove themselves adroit students of pop songcraft of any stripe.

Speaking to Best of Kings’ release, “We made Best of Kings because it was the record we wanted to hear at the time. We were seeking really good, effective songs, that could carry us from one end of the thread to the other. A deep and meaningful friendship was forged through the process, and we ended up with something that as listeners, we would be stoked to discover. We hope you enjoy it.”

Across their string of singles – the cryptic and cozy ‘Infinity Inside A Shopping Cart’ and yearning guitar-led arrangement ‘Cary’ – Attention Bird Utopia have been praised across global tastemakers including fbi radio, 2SER, 3RRR, RTR FM, The Line of Best Fit, Stereogum, Brooklyn Vegan and more for their dynamic world that leaves a lasting impression.

Today’s release sees a collection of seven new tracks including the Ethan Gruska-collab ‘Stage Name’, ambivalent ‘One Step At a Time’, imagined lonesome LA cowboys (‘Brother, Oh Brother’), ethereal ‘Best of Kings’, surprising celebrity run-in (‘Beck’s Eyes’), wheel of life anthem ‘A Company of Hamsters’ and love-lorn ‘I’ll Come Find You’. Rest assured, Best of Kings has you covered, in a release that is a sincere, vulnerable repeat listen.

Attention Bird Utopia’s genesis begins when Eli Hirsch (Suki Waterhouse, Cautious Clay, Say Lou Lou) was executive producing Suki Waterhouse’s 2024 LP Memoir of A Sparklemuffin at his studio in Los Angeles, and Harrison Whitford (Phoebe Bridgers, Matt Berninger, Conor Oberst) dropped in on an afternoon recording session. The two hit it off, and soon Whitford started coming over to Eli’s home studio to blow off steam while playing chess (Eli humbly admits, with a hint of awe, that Harry is the superior chess player: “I’ll never beat him”). They bonded over their love of The Beatles, Jackson Browne, and Paul Simon, and Harry exposed Eli to the deeper cuts from the songbooks of country legends like Hank Williams and Willie Nelson.