Naming your first release after your band is an auspicious way to introduce oneself, to say the least, but Birds & Souls have done just thatand the results more than live up to their sensational packaging. Birds & Souls lead single Birds & Souls (from the debut Birds & Souls EP on Spectral Sound) is an exuberant track built more for rock shows than dancefloors, charting a journey from giddy, congas-and-claves house to synth-drenched space disco to ecstatic arpeggiated bliss and back again. At Birds & Souls apex, Birds & Souls member Sergio Giorgini intones My soul, it weighs a thousand pounds / touch the mountain, touch the groundat that moment, the duo seem everywhere at once, their feet stomping out a primal 4-on-the-floor, their heads soaring through the clouds.