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Vaim Hull

UK alt-pop trio Exploring Birdsong reveal new single ‘Weight In Gold’

Alternative, Pop
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Our site is dedicated to everything rock and metal with a few sidesteps in music that appeals to the same music fans like synthwave, neo (pagan) folk, industrial,… But some of us do have a taste for music and art that goes beyond these limitations. Enter “GRIMM goes rogue”: where you’ll get a metalhead, punker, rocker,… who ventures into realms beyond their usual habitat with an open mind and give their honest opinion, views and experiences.

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A beautifully curious blend of pop-sensibility, delicacy and experimentation. Piano led, guitar-less trio Exploring Birdsong are paving their own musical path with their latest single Weight in Gold.

“Weight in Gold was another song that was initially written way back during our time in university as part of our songwriting module,” comment the band. “In a similar way to The Collapse, it existed in a wildly different form back then, and we knew we wanted to release it at some point, but didn’t want to waste what we thought is one of the strongest choruses we had in the bank. The benefit of having time to leave it alone and eventually revisit it has given us what we think is a song that encapsulates us pretty perfectly – and although up to this point, it’s the poppiest song we’ve released, it still feels like it is a really natural fit within the way our writing and arranging has progressed over the last year or so.”

Be there at prime time tonight when the band enters the ring for the boxing match of the year. The video to Weight in Gold can be seen here: https://youtu.be/qbBvuJYpxHc

Stream the single here: https://orcd.co/exploringbirdsong_weightingold

“The music video is the most fun we’ve ever had on a shoot. Really, all of the songs left to release this year each display a different side of us in their own right. Differing vastly from each other, and don’t have a place on our debut album, but are still, completely, authentically us.”

Rarely are new groups as exciting, talented or unique as Exploring Birdsong. Straddling pop, rock and uncategorisable genre-blending beauty, the band are unplaceable for the most part, but bring to mind elements of London Grammar, Kate Bush and Everything Everything.

Rarely too do you hear voices as captivating as frontwoman Lynsey Ward’s. Powerful, controlled, and spine-chillingly tender, Lynsey’s vocals help mark Exploring Birdsong as a prospect to watch, from the release of their acclaimed debut The Thing With Feathers (2019, Long Branch Records) to 2023’s EP Dancing in the Face of Danger. 

Exploring Birdsong caught the eyes of key players in the press (Kerrang! Magazine, Prog Magazine, Classic Rock Magazine) and achieved two Progressive Music Awards nominations. The young group most recently joined Katatonia as special guest following successful support tours with the likes of Sleep Token and Thank You Scientist.

Line Up:

Lynsey Ward – Vocals, piano
Jonny Knight –  Bass guitar, synthesizer
Matt Harrison – Drums, percussion

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20/10/2024/0 Comments/by Vaim Hull
Tags: alt-pop, alternative, Exploring Birdsong, long branch records, pop, UK
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