Deem Spencer returns with 'all these crying birds', a carefree EP released on the heels of his critically acclaimed 2023 debut 'adultSW!m'. He calls it a love album, balancing bars of vulnerable introspection with playfully puffed-up persona and humor. “When I talk about love and romance, I like to make light of how dramatic some of our love lives can be…the title all these crying birds, that's just funny to me, but it's also poetry, a storybook classic feel.” His ideas have been spinning since adultSW!M, and they overflowed into sessions last summer at producer Jackson Pittman’s Manhattan studio. “A friend of mine would always tell me, oh, Jackson’s got beats for you. So we finally linked up and we ended up making like 70 demos, probably more like 90 by now.” The duo’s chemistry is clear, and they get right into it with a pair of under-two-minute opening tracks. The EP's shape-shifting centerpiece, “Pony,” details the tangles and misunderstandings of a relationship’s fallout. “Pony feels like a lovable heel turn,” he says. All this over some of the purest hooks in his catalog. He closes all these crying birds in the clever flow of “she’s a winner,” which crosses skittering beats and skidding car screeches: “Shorty tried to reach me by pigeon fly courier / really had a lot of time to figure how there’s no way out / I am not like these other n*ggas I am glorious.