Birdy outdoes herself with Young Heart, a pensive journey that offers some solace and a shoulder to cry on.
At times, Birdy’s lyrical themes of finding herself and overcoming heartache are a little overdone and, at 15 tracks, Young Heart is too long-winded for its own good. Even so, there is a lot to like here.
With a powerful voice like Birdy you can't really go full wrong.... what a talented woman. 'Young Heart' is a collection of romantic-esque songs that could be easily so damn generic, yet it got soul. It's a driven album, made me cozy for a while but at the same time it's "just ok" to be listening to this in the background. Birdy is suited to folk music, she was born to do it no matter what.
No “The Collective Collaborative Review” today, Birdy dropping her first album in five years is the only motivation I need to write something this time around! To be fair, its release neatly coincided with the end of school assessments, but aside from that I just didn’t really want to write any reviews anyway. I’ve mostly been using this site recently as a listening log, although procrastinating here remains a bit of a bad habit I’m still trying to kick. Will I be ... read more
The Witching Hour - Intro - 4/5
Voyager - 4/5
Loneliness - 5/5 ❤
The Otherside - 3/5
Surrender - 3/5
Nobody Knows You Like I Do - 5/5 ❤
River Song - 5/5 ❤
Second Hand News - 3/5
Deepest Lonely - 5/5 ❤
Lighthouse - 3/5
Chopin Waltz In A Minor (Interlude) - 4/5
Evergreen - 4/5
River Blue - 3/5
Celestial Dancers - 5/5 ❤
New Moon - 4/5
Young Heart - 3/5
1 | The Witching Hour – Intro 0:49 | 75 |
2 | Voyager 4:26 | 81 |
3 | Loneliness 3:22 | 88 |
4 | The Otherside 3:26 | 74 |
5 | Surrender 3:54 | 85 |
6 | Nobody Knows Me Like You Do 4:57 | 89 |
7 | River Song 3:45 | 81 |
8 | Second Hand News 4:08 | 82 |
9 | Deepest Lonely 3:52 | 84 |
10 | Lighthouse 3:33 | 78 |
11 | Chopin Waltz in A Minor (Interlude) 0:45 | 75 |
12 | Evergreen 3:32 | 78 |
13 | Little Blue 3:03 | 73 |
14 | Celestial Dancers 5:19 | 85 |
15 | New Moon 3:32 | 81 |
16 | Young Heart 5:58 | 82 |