A full worldwide release followed on Novem(and November 17 in North America). In July 2009, it was announced that Tune-Yards had signed to 4AD, and a limited edition pressing of Bird-Brains was released on August 17, 2009.

A limited edition vinyl was released in June 2009, via the Portland-based imprint Marriage Records. It was recorded using only a handheld voice recorder. The first Tune-Yards album, Bird-Brains (stylized as BiRd-BrAiNs) was originally self-released by Garbus on recycled cassette tape. After releasing her first Tune-Yards album in 2008, she moved to Oakland, California, where her partner in Tune-Yards, Nate Brenner, also lives.

Merrill's sister Ruth Garbus is also a musician who has played solo and in the band Happy Birthday. She was a puppeteer for the Sandglass Theater in Vermont and lived in Montreal where she played ukulele in the band Sister Suvi with guitarist Patrick Gregoire and drummer Nico Dann. At the same time, the Tune-Yards provided an atmospheric score for the sci fi film Sorry to Bother You.īorn in 1979, Garbus was raised in New York City and in New Canaan, Connecticut. The album I Can Feel You Creep Into My Private Life was released in January 2018. The album Nikki Nack was released in 2014, with its first single, 'Water Fountain', being picked up by Google Pixel in 2016 for an advertising campaign. Tune-Yards’ 2011 album Whokill was ranked the number one album of that year in The Village Voice's annual Pazz and Jop critic's poll.

Garbus's music draws from an eclectic variety of sources and utilizes elements such as loop pedals, ukulele, vocals, and lo-fi percussion. Tune-Yards (stylized as tUnE-yArDs) is the American, Oakland, California–based music project of Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner. Garbus performing at Café de la Danse in Paris, France, on June 2, 2011

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