The Bird and the Bee Sides begins with a baker's dozen of original new tunes collected under the moniker of The Nashville Tennis EP. With all five members writing and taking turns on lead vocals, it's perhaps Relient K's most diverse effort to date, including Thiessen's alt-country. At Least We Made It This Far, bassist John Warne's The Last, The Lost, The Least, which is explosive both sonically and in its social commentary, and new drummer Ethan Luck's punk rock reggae No Reaction, to name but a few highlights. As for the Bee Sides Relient K remixed and re-mastered 13 tracks, including an acoustic version of the hit single Who I Am Hates Who I've Been. There are also tunes from The Vinyl Countdown, The Employee Of The Month EP, The Creepy EP, The Apathetic EP and, as Thiessen puts it, a ton of other stuff that you can't even find on the internet - at least not yet.
