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.
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But there's really no other word to describe the record that gave Birdy wings.
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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. It is a cover of the song by French indie rock band Phoenix. "1901" was released in the UK on 9 March 2012 as the album's fourth single. The song is a cover of the song by English indie rock band Cherry Ghost and peaked at number thirty-three in the UK. "People Help the People" was released as the album's third single on 28 October 2011. The song covers a track by English indie pop group The xx and peaked at number fifty in the UK. "Shelter" was released as the second single from the album on 3 June 2011. The cover reached a peak of number seventeen on the UK Singles Chart.
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"Skinny Love" was released on 30 January 2011 as the first single from the album, which was a cover of a song by American indie folk band Bon Iver. The album includes the singles "Skinny Love", "Shelter" and "People Help the People". While Birdy can bring out the fragility in other artists’ songs, she finds strength-and freedom-in her own.Birdy is the self-titled debut studio album by English singer Birdy, released on 4 November 2011 by 14th Floor Records and Atlantic Records. She’s matured gracefully since, boasting a richer, smokier croon that sounds just as at home in the big baroque-pop productions of 2016’s Beautiful Lies as the intimate, soul-searching reflections of 2021’s Young Heart. Lush pop-rock anthems like “Wings” let her flex her vocals, while misty piano confessions such as “No Angel” hit as hard and heavy as an Adele tell-all. Her songwriting talents would soon take centre stage, though, with her 2013 follow-up album, Fire Within.
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In 2011, at 15, the singer/songwriter delivered her self-titled debut album, a collection of more stark and striking covers-mostly of modern indie-pop hits, like Phoenix’s “1901” and The xx’s “Shelter”-and one self-penned song, the soulful tearjerker “Without a Word”, quietly tossed in toward the end. At the time of its release, the young Birdy-born Jasmine van den Bogaerde in 1996 in Lymington-had been playing piano half her life and already proven her vocal prowess as the winner of the Open Mic UK talent competition at age 12. This rare trait was evident from the start when, at 14 years old, she covered Bon Iver’s “Skinny Love”, stripping down the already bare-bones ballad to its most fragile core. Birdy’s ability to distil the pure emotion of a song-whether it’s someone else’s or her own-is her most magnetic quality.