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Sofa Session: Birdy

Birdy plays a Sofa Session for Jo, including music from her upcoming fourth album Young Heart.

Birdy plays a Sofa Session for Jo, including music from her upcoming fourth album Young Heart which is released on April 30th.

Young Heart is quite the departure from Birdy鈥檚 previous album, 2015鈥檚 dramatic Beautiful Lies. Where Beautiful Lies was a fairy tale, Young Heart is a gritty realist portrait of the artist in pain, looking for the light. The songs on the album tussle between light and dark, between that vastness of space and the interior of home. The conflict between wanting to hide away and being compelled to go away, to new places and new experiences play out across the record. The album opener Voyager is a beautifully written song about the knowledge and pain that you need to end a relationship, but the no-mans land where your partner doesn鈥檛 know yet. From there, the record speaks of the fallout - the loneliness, the pain of missing the person she still loves, the acceptance of grief being central to love and loss, longing for travel but the pull of the familiarity of home.

1 hour, 30 minutes

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Wed 5 May 2021 19:30
大象传媒 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Orla Gartland

    Zombie!

    • Zombie!.
    • 1.

  • Super Furry Animals

    Something 4 The Weekend

    • Creation Records.

  • Amy Shark & Keith Urban

    Love Songs Ain't For Us

    • Love Songs Ain't For Us.
    • 1.

  • Self Esteem

    I Do This All The Time

    • I Do This All The Time.
    • Virgin.

  • 叠别测辞苍肠茅

    Irreplaceable

    • B Day.
    • RCA.

  • The Nextmen & Eva Lazarus

    Rudegyal

  • Guillemots

    Made-Up Lovesong #43

    • CD SINGLE.
    • Polydor.

  • Audio Bullys

    Shot You Down (feat. Nancy Sinatra)

    • Shot You Down.
    • Source.
    • 1.

  • girl in red

    Body And Mind

    • if i could make it go quiet.
    • 3.

  • Prince & The Revolution

    Kiss

    • 4Ever.
    • Warner Bros.

  • Birdy

    Skinny Love (Sofa Session, 05 May 2021)

  • Birdy

    Second Hand News (Sofa Session, 05 May 2021)

  • Tracy Chapman

    Talkin' Bout A Revolution

    • Tracy Chapman.
    • Elektra.

  • Birdy

    Wuthering Heights (Sofa Session, 05 May 2021)

  • VC Pines

    See You Soon

    • See You Soon.
    • Theory Records.
    • 1.

  • Tom Waits

    Ruby's Arms

    • The Asylum Years.
    • 2.

  • Lauran Hibberd

    How Am I Still Alive?

  • Perry Como

    Magic Moments

    • 50's Number Ones Vol 1.
    • Old Gold.

  • Aphex Twin

    Avril 14th

    • Warp.

Broadcast

  • Wed 5 May 2021 19:30
    大象传媒 Radio 2