Exploring Birdsong have announced the details of their long-awaited debut full-length, set to arrive this Summer.
It will be titled ‘Every House We Built’ and will be released on June 26 via Long Branch Records.
The artwork looks like this:
Whilst the tracklisting is a little like this:
1. Archipelago
2. 42
3. Romanticise
4. Footprints
5. Arrhythmia
6. Spy In The House Of Love
7. I_You
8. The Warning
9. You Like it Best When It Hurts
10. Cartography
11. Every House We Built
12. Meadowlands
Following on from the release of ‘42' and ‘Romanticise’, the band have now shared ‘You Like It Best When It Hurts’, and it shows off yet another shade that the record will inhabit.
A beautifully considered blend of billowing synths and crushing breakdowns, it demonstrates how the trio are happy to make things heavy when the time is right. And when it comes to a song steeped in as much frustration as this is, it’s only right that they flex a fresh muscle.
Vocalist Lynsey Ward had this to say about it, explaining, “You Like It Best… actually began its life as a completely different song, but easily found a way to take the shape that it has now. For as long as we’ve been a band we’ve been proud that our sound has such broad shoulders, so we felt we could really push our influences from heavy music out into the open with this one and create the heaviest Birdsong music to date. Lyrically, it is written about observing a type of person that we have all come across- self-sabotaging and self destructive almost to the point where it seems that they can’t -or don’t want to- break the cycle. More new territory for us, as we’re now equipped to convey anger and aggression convincingly-it felt completely natural to write a bit of a love letter to heavy music whilst channeling our own frustrations.”
The band will be heading out on the road for a string of headline shows later this year. Here’s where you will be able to catch them.
SEPTEMBER
23 – GLASGOW Classic Grand
24 – LONDON Islington Assembly Hall
25 – BRISTOL Strange Brew
26 – MANCHESTER Gorilla
