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Track Listings
| 1. 1901 |
| 2. Skinny Love |
| 3. People Help the People |
| 4. White Winter Hymnal |
| 5. The District Sleeps Alone Tonight |
| 6. I'll Never Forget You |
| 7. Young Blood |
| 8. Shelter |
| 9. Fire and Rain |
| 10. Without a Word |
| 11. Terrible Love |
| 12. Comforting Sounds (Bonus) |
| 13. Farewell and Goodnight (Bonus) |
| 14. People Help the People (Rak Session) |
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Since then, the 15-year-old from Hampshire – Jasmine Van den Bogaerde to her form tutor – has stripped back songs by The xx (Shelter) and Cherry Ghost (People Help the People), setting the template for this debut album. Here, she tackles so many Pitchfork favourites – Phoenix's 1901, The National's Terrible Love, Fleet Foxes' White Winter Hymnal – that it's tempting to speculate whether Foals politely declined when she asked to cover Spanish Sahara. Of course, even the hippest indie kid dips into daddy's soft rock collection when he's not looking, which is presumably why Fire & Rain by James Taylor – the oldest song here by three decades – also appears.
For its 11 tracks, a trio of knob-twiddlers as trendy as the track selection – Jim Abbiss (Arctic Monkeys), Rich Costey (Franz Ferdinand) and James Ford (Klaxons) – keep things intimate and slightly shivery. However, many songs boast a more robust production than Skinny Love; Birdy's piano chords are often cloaked in an alluring veil of reverberation, and embellished with strings, vocal overdubs and even a few drum loops. However, when the record threatens to stray into MOR territory, it’s set straight by Birdy's vocals, as pure and emotionally resonant as teardrops trickling down unblemished skin.
Does this teenage siren really appreciate the lyrics she's singing, mostly written by men twice her age? That's a matter of conjecture, but the LP's sole original – an ambiguous break-up song called Without a Word – suggests her emotional intensity is no pose. Either way, it's hard not to declare the record an admittedly limited success – what’s here points to a brighter future for Birdy than the last British female to pique curiosity with a clever covers set. Besides, at 15, she already seems far too self-possessed to make an ass of herself at the Brit Awards. --Nick Levine
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Her voice is so mature and simply stunning.
I received this for Christmas and haven't stopped listening to it.
Really beautiful.
Really hope we see alot more of this girl,would love to hear her sing some coldplay songs.
Her album really made me tingle.
BUY IT NOW,GREAT ALBUM,AMAZING VOICE & TALENT. ;) NICE 1 BIRDY,WELL DONE.
Introspective,bleak and at times strangely eerie, I can understand that this album might not to be everyones taste. But if you want to hear a collection of memorable songs, beautifully sung over a backdrop of mournful keyboards,a smattering of percussion and soaring strings then this is a 'must have' in anyones collection.
Hopefully the follow up album will include more original material but as the one original here,'Without A Word', stands up well with all the cover versions then that shouldn't be a problem for this very talanted young artist.
Like Kate Bush, we could be singing the praises of Birdy for decades to come.
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