<a href="http://shop.fikarecordings.com/album/enderbys-room">Enderby's Room by Enderby's Room</a> The latest single from Enderby's Room is out today! Birds is taken from their forthcoming debut album, and was premiered over at For The Rabbits yesterday. Here's what they had to say about it:
The track is a delicate piece of gently unfurling minimalism, led by a lightly plucked acoustic, and the steady pulse of a double-bass; it’s left to the vocals to carry much of the melodic content. Thankfully in guest vocalist, Deerful’s Emma Winston, they’ve the perfect foil, while Emma’s own music exists in the field of electronic-pop, here she demonstrates herself an equally adept folk-singer. Emma’s silvery vocal effortlessly carrying the quiet melancholy of Dan’s words, as she sings of the natural migration of our avian visitors, “they’re preparing to leave this land and head somewhere warmer, far from our crystal winter“. It’s a song that knows we must all fly the nest at some point, but even in that inevitability, there’s still a sense of trepidation and sadness and what me way lose along the way.
The whole track builds to a quiet crescendo, as Dan and a third voice, belonging to Sophie Koonin, join to provide delightfully harmonious, counter melodies, and the rich, weezing tones of a Victorian pedal harmonium add a touch of depth, before the whole thing fades to fluttering bird song. It’s an exquisitely delivered, and vivid piece of songwriting, and the strongest case yet for just how good Enderby’s Room’s album could be.
Enderby's Room - "Birds" Bandcamp | Spotify | iTunes
You can still buy their debut 7" vinyl record My Old Friend, and pre-order their album on vinyl, CD or as a download from our Bandcamp shop - it's out in just over a month's time.