The transition to this new musical style appears to pose no problem for her she sounds as though she is perfectly in her element. Whereas the climax in 2011’s “Skinny Love” featured a wavering vocal tremble that was earnest but strained and uneven, the bridge in “Keeping Your Head Up” presents Birdy in complete command of a haunting, pristinely smooth vibrato.
Its mesh of thundering bass, electronica, and synth would have swallowed the old Birdy whole, but the fullness of her voice now proves more than capable of powering through the track’s heavy production. “Keeping Your Head Up” is a track that epitomizes her transformation. In “Beautiful Lies”, her vocal color has changed to a shocking degree: Birdy has traded her sweet, childlike warble for a drastically deeper, richer tone. Her covers, accompanied by piano, easily lent themselves to monotony but were gracefully buoyed by the spellbinding innocence of her high-pitched, quivering voice. Through “Beautiful Lies,” Birdy affirms that the days of her sweet yet safe cover of Bon Iver’s “Skinny Love” are long gone and that what lies ahead in her career is a more gorgeously complex and daringly individual sound.īack in 2011, the then-14-year-old Birdy’s first offerings were charming enough. The result is a huge creative leap forward and the finest display of her talents to date.
Her newest album does weave in traces of influence from her early sound, but its clear focus is on Birdy’s breaking through the sphere of indie-folk ballads and experimenting with elements from the foreign realm of indie-pop. A 10-second slice from any of the tracks on “Beautiful Lies” will quickly point to a very clear conclusion: Birdy has grown to become nearly unrecognizable.
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