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Birdy first came on my radar when her song "Just a Game" was released on the movie soundtrack for the first Hunger Games movie-- it was hauntingly beautiful in lyricism, vocals, and instrumentation. I've followed Birdy from a distance across the years since and she's simply gotten better with time; Beautiful Lies is a culmination of all the things that make Birdy a dynamic and powerful musical artist.
Beautiful Lies feels like it would fit in as the soundtrack to all the most beautifully human moments-- a sunrise, a cabin while it snows, a drive through nature. The most comparable artist to Birdy is probably Adele, and Birdy absolutely deserves the same amount of recognition that Adele gets.
Stand-out tracks: "Keeping Your Head Up" "Take My Heart"
My favorites: "Deep End" "Wild Horses""Words"
Each song on Beautiful Lies has expertly crafted; from the the soft yet powerful vocals to the lilting pianos and soft-rock drums. The album opens with Florence+The Machine-esque "Growing Pains" and is closely followed by one of the many ethereal piano ballads on the album with "Shadow." "Deep End," "Lost It All," and "Silhouette" are powerful and heart-wrenching, dominantly steered by piano and Birdy's soft, reverberating voice singing lyrics like "don't want to find I've lost it all/too scared to have no one to call/so can we just pretend/that we're not falling into the deep end?" and "I may be on my knees, but I still believe/these broken wings will soar." "Take My Heart" is a chilling, gorgeous lilting ballad illustrating falling back into a relationship that already broke you once. "Keeping Your Head Up" and "Lifted" are powerful and hopeful; they draw the listener out of the melancholy of some of the other tracks with more of a folk-pop sound. "Hear You Calling" almost has an ABBA-type sound, which surprisingly fits in with the classic sound of the full album. "Words" and "Save Yourself" adds some substance to the classic piano ballad with haunting echoing vocals and pulsing rhythm synths that make these songs infinitely more expansive than they would be if left in their pared-back forms.
Altogether, Beautiful Lies is stunning work of art.
AM I OBSESSED?
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