The album won praise for its music, with the Financial Times describing the album as "engaging" in its 4-star review, stating, "Any album about the passing of time sets itself a stern challenge in justifying its claim on our time: Summer Is Gone passes the test." The interactive website was designed and programmed by Peter Browse and Caleb Al-Jorani of One Pixel Wide. In addition to standard release formats, the album featured a website, which created a unique track listing for each visitor. He subsequently released Summer is Gone, an orchestral album largely tracked live at Abbey Road Studios and ISSUE Project Room. AllMusic gave the album 4 stars, saying "Earth into Aether is an opportune entrance point for those new to the artist, doubling as a well-curated playlist for established fans." The album was Rough Trade album of the month and subsequently named one of its 100 best albums of the year. More positive reviews followed as well as live performances on several BBC programs. In 2016, he released the UK only 2XLP Earth into Aether, a selection of tracks from his self-released records, which The Guardian called "a lovely, warm, witty psychedelic journey" in a 4-star review. Later that year, he released Diamond Eyepatch to positive reviews, with Popmatters claiming "he transcends genres even as he reinvents them." Upon finishing his time at Mills College, he was awarded the Frog Peak Collective Experimental Music Prize. In 2014, he performed at the Phono Del Sol music festival in San Francisco. Īfter its release, Baird was named "Best Newly Arrived East Bay Musician" by East Bay Express. He described its album and its creation in a wide-ranging 2013 interview with Tiny Mix Tapes. The vinyl packaging includes a copy of the script written for the musical. Spring Break of the Soul was originally written as a musical but has not been performed. In 2013, Baird moved from Austin, Texas to Oakland, California to become a teaching assistant while pursuing an MFA in electronic music at Mills College there, he released the album Spring Break of the Soul. In 2011, Baird performed his final show as Sunset at the inaugural Gorilla vs. In late 2010, he published a zine, "How Songwriting Ruined My Life," which led to songwriting workshops at the Esalen Institute as well as several Austin, TX high schools. These subsequent two self-released records, Career and Goodbye Vibrations, received critical praise, with Tiny Mix Tapes declaring "Bill Baird is one of the last rock n roll geniuses" and The Big Takeover calling Goodbye Vibrations "powerful." His earnings from the Flying Squirrels paid for his next two self-released records and funded his fall 2010 European tour.
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14, 2009, and subbed him in as a second baseman in the sixth inning of a game against the Bowie Baysox.
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As a thank you for his efforts, the team signed him to a one-day player contract on Aug. Based on positive reception to his performances, he travelled with them on the road for part of the season. In 2009, Baird was hired as a recurring national-anthem singer for the Richmond Flying Squirrels, a AA baseball team, and received side work dressing up as the team's Flying Squirrel mascot at community outreach events.
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In 2006, Baird left Sound Team and began performing as, Bill Baird recorded the song 'Fishtown' at Miner Street Recordings in Philadelphia with Producer and Engineer Brian McTear and Producer Quentin Stoltzfus for Volume 0 Episode 1 of Weathervane Music's documentary video series Shaking Through.
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Baird first achieved success as the frontman for Sound Team (2001–2007), which was signed to Capitol Records in 2005 but dropped from the label after the commercial failure of their album Movie Monster.