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. 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.įor 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. 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. 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. Released back in January, her voice-and-piano cover of Bon Iver's Skinny Love, as economical as it is evocative, became a Radio 1 favourite and unexpected top 20 hit. But there's really no other word to describe the record that gave Birdy wings. The word "haunting" is common as gossip in pop criticism - wont to tag everything from Phil Collins' chocolate flogger In the Air Tonight to the Eminem murder ballad that references it, Stan.
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