it became a source of much angst to me, an older-than-Birdy-but-still-teenage Bon Iver super-fan, that
many people thought it was her original song. Adult me can concede that it was a pretty decent cover: her musicality and vocal ability certainly were not representative of the average 14-year-old. It’s ironic that Birdy’s new record
should be called
Young Heart, because even though she is only 24, it sounds a bit, well, old. Her fourth album, and comeback after a three-year hiatus, it processes her first major heartbreak, but it sounds somehow nostalgic or retrospective, like a sage hippie looking back on her youth. On the cover of the record there is a photograph of Birdy sitting on the steps of a porch, looking small and delicate behind her guitar, at an indeterminate time and temperature (it could be a chilly morning in 1982, or a warm evening in 2019) and laughing, covering her mouth with a
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Faye Webster Announces New Album I Know I m Funny haha
Today, Atlanta wunderkind Faye Webster announces her new album, I Know I m Funny haha, out June 25th on Secretly Canadian. To mark the occasion she has released the first single, Cheers and its companion music video directed by Matt Swinsky. This song has always felt like a standout from the record to me. It was the kind of song where you re like oh yeah, this is the one, Webster says of Cheers. Right after the first take. It felt different to me and it made it feel like I was entering a new era and chapter for myself.
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Ben Howard has shared a live version of his song, “Finders Keepers”. The song is also part of Howard’s forthcoming Record Store Day release on June 12, which features 4 live session/stripped back tracks from Howard’s UK chart-topping album,
Collections From The Whiteout. You can check the new “Finders Keepers” live video out below.
The British singer-songwriter’s fourth studio album,
Collections From The Whiteout,
was first issued on March 26 via Republic Records. Produced with Aaron Dessner (The National, Sharon Van Etten, Taylor Swift), its recording marked the first time that Howard has opened his studio doors to an outside collaborator.
When Carey Mulligan hosted Saturday Night Live April 10, the Oscar-nominated actress for
Promising Young Woman brought along a surprise guest. Her husband, musician Marcus Mumford, appeared in the monologue and offered himself as a musical guest, even though the episode already had Kid Cudi. While some viewers were surprised to find out the notoriously private actress was married to the Mumford and Sons member, the couple has been married since 2012, and they have two kids named Evelyn and Wilfred (so adorably English!). Here s what we know about Mumford and their marriage.
He s the lead singer and founding member of the band Mumford and Sons.