The Bird and the Bee is the self-titled debut studio album

Studio album

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 by American indie pop

Indie pop

Indie pop is a genre of alternative rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the mid 1980s, with its roots in the Scottish post-punk bands on the Postcard Records label in the early '80s, such as Orange Juice, Josef K and Aztec Camera, and the dominant UK independent band of the mid...

 duo The Bird and the Bee

The Bird and the Bee

The Bird and the Bee is an American indie pop musical duo from Los Angeles, California, consisting of musicians Inara George and Greg Kurstin...

, released on January 23, 2007 by Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records

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. Containing three tracks which appeared on the band's 2006 EP Again and Again and Again and Again

Again and Again and Again and Again

Again and Again and Again and Again is the debut EP by American indie pop duo The Bird and the Bee. It was released on October 31, 2006 by Blue Note Records, three months before the duo's debut album The Bird and the Bee, and contains three tracks from the album...

, the album received positive reviews from music critics. The first single, "Fucking Boyfriend

Fucking Boyfriend

"Fucking Boyfriend" is the name of an electronica/house/indie pop track from the American duo The Bird and the Bee. The single, which topped the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart in December 2006, is featured on the acts' 2006 EP Again and Again and Again and Again and their 2007 full length CD The...

", was a number-one hit on Billboard

Billboard (magazine)

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s Hot Dance Club Play chart in December 2006.

Track listing

Personnel

• Greg Kurstin
  Greg Kurstin
  Gregory Allen "Greg" Kurstin is an award-winning American songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. In 2009 Kurstin received a Grammy Award nomination for Producer of the Year. That same year he won three Ivor Novello awards for his work with Lily Allen, including Songwriters of the Year for "The Fear"...
  
   – producer
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  , engineer
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  , mixing
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  , instrumentation
  Instrumentation (music)
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• Inara George
  Inara George
  Inara Maryland George is a Los Angeles, California-based singer-songwriter, one half of The Bird and the Bee, a member of the band Merrick, with Bryony Atkinson, and a member of the trio The Living Sisters, with Eleni Mandell and Becky Stark...
  
   – vocals
  Singing
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   (all tracks); fuzz bass (track 1)
• Autumn de Wilde
  Autumn de Wilde
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   – photography
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• Josh Gold – project manager
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• Gordon H. Jee – creative director
  Creative Director
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• Keith Karwelies – A&R
• Gavin Lurssen
  Gavin Lurssen
  Gavin Lurssen is a mastering engineer. He owns Lurssen Mastering in Hollywood, California. Lurssen's Grammy Award–winning work includes Raising Sand, a collaborative album featuring Alison Krauss and Robert Plant, and the soundtrack for the Coen Brothers film, O Brother, Where Art Thou?...
  
   – mastering
  Audio mastering
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• David Ralicke – horn
  Horn (instrument)
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   (track 4)
• Helen Verhoeven – artwork
  Album cover
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• Eli Wolf – A&R
• Burton Yount – package design

Charts

Chart (2007)	Peak position
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US Top Heatseekers Top Heatseekers Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical...	17
US Top Independent Albums Independent Albums The Billboard Independent Albums is a chart of the highest-selling independent music albums and extended plays in the United States, compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is used to list artists who are not signed to major labels...	39