Birdy Biography

The cover versions that along with one original composition made up Birdy’s self-titled 1.5 million-selling debut album were an extraordinary introduction to an artist who – despite her tender years and the fact that she was interpreting other writers’ songs – managed to stamp her instantly recognizable identity on all of them. A voice that plugged the listener straight into the emotional mains and an innate understanding of texture nuance and restraint helped Birdy burrow deep beneath the skin of songs such as The xx’s Shelter Bon Iver’s Skinny Love and The Postal Service’s The District Sleeps Alone Tonight. Topping the charts in eight countries the album won rave reviews many of which were dominated by one question: what next?
Eighteen months on from that debut the 17-year-old Hampshire singer and songwriter is providing us with the answer. Birdy’s album Fire Within could be described as her second debut because it sees her stepping into and shining in a new role as songwriter-in-chief. Recorded in Los Angeles and London Fire Within’s 11 tracks include her stirring propulsive single Wings the tender piano ballad No Angel and Light Me Up the song that more than any other emphasizes the dramatic developments in Birdy’s musicianship and writing over the past 18 months. The hushed vulnerability of her first album is there certainly; nowhere more so than on No Angel and fellow lighters-aloft moments such as Words as Weapons All About You and Heart of Gold – deeply personal songs that capture Birdy’s incredible ability to convey emotion with the subtlest of vocal and instrumental touches. But these sit alongside songs that strike out in bold new directions: the aforementioned Light Me Up comes out of the speakers like an unstoppable force its brooding bluesy verse giving way to a bridge that ups the pace towards a chorus whose power chords and thunderous beats draw out of a Birdy vocal performance you could never describe as hushed; on the contrary her voice is bigger richer deeper than before. All You Never Say meanwhile combines ricocheting beats with sonorous piano chords a mix that is at once wintry and warm as Birdy sings the devastating central refrain: “All you never say is that you love me so.”

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