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Towa Bird Is ‘Taking It to the Next Level’ on New Album ‘Gentleman’

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By Maya Georgi With her second album, Towa Bird is redefining what it means to be a gentleman. From the way the singer-songwriter and guitarist rocks oversize tailored suits on the album’s cover to the swaggering guitar tones that shape its sonic world, the project, titled Gentleman, gives the concept brand-new meaning. “When people think of a gentleman, it’s a very masculine, almost traditional word,” Bird tells Rolling Stone. “But I’m expressing it as the two separate words that exist in that word, so ‘gentle’ and ‘man,’ the feminine and the masculine.” She continues, “I felt like I could identify the way that I dress, my style, the way that I present my gender and how I appear to the world. Everything clicked and I was like, ‘Oh, wow, that’s me.'” True to her point, the Los Angeles-based musician is wearing a white oversize men’s button-down with ruby red polish on her nails for our Zoom call.…

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