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"When Zach Rogue hiked up to Griffith Park in L.A. to film a video for \"Always Like The Son,\" from his album Come Back to Us, he was wearing wholly inappropriate shoes.\n\"I was hiking up a big hill in Tom's shoes through all these snake holes, and I was thinking to myself that I was going to be in trouble,\" Rogue says. \nThe musician, who has been the frontman of the band Rogue Wave for nearly 10 years now, was risking snake bites and turned ankles to document a live, acoustic set of the jam, which is from the debut album of his side project band, Release The Sunbird. The disc [iTunes link] drops Tuesday.\nThe video above, doused in sunshine and warmth that jibes perfectly with Rogue's honeyed voice, is part of photographer Alexander Shahmiri's In the Open series, which kicked off with an al fresco performance by Shahmiri's childhood friends, Young the Giant. The series has burgeoned since then to include the likes of Ellie Goulding and Two Door Cinema Club.\nThe setting for and the stripped-down feeling of the vid presented the perfect showcase for Release The Sunbird's sound. \"I wanted to make a record that if all you had was a guitar, then you could play those songs and they could stand up on their own,\" Rogue says. \"I definitely wanted the kind of campfire, sitting-on-the-back-deck-of-your house kind of feeling, and I think that the video helped illustrate that that's what we were trying to do.\"\nRogue calls the album a \"Sunday morning kind of record,\" a disc that gives the listener time and space to think. It's a sparse and lovely record \u2014 not one that sticks and spins in your head, but washes over you like entirely non-oppressive sunshine.\nFor Rogue, making the disc was considerably freeing after spending so many years working with the same band \u2014 hence the rather ebullient band name. \"The Sunbird is whatever it is inside of you that's kind of rattling around and needs to, wants to come out \u2014 wants to see the light of day,\" he says. And what better location to release that rattling beast than in the open."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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