In Birdsong
Everything Everything * Track #9 On RE-ANIMATOR
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In Birdsong by Everything Everything
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Everything EverythingWrited by
Jonathan Higgs & Alex Robertshaw & Jeremy Pritchard & Michael SpearmanAbout
“In Birdsong” sees Everything Everything frontman Jonathan Higgs returning to his recurring habit of personifying animals and primitive humans in songs. Speaking to the NME, he explained that the song tries to imagine what it would have been like to have been the first sapient human.
“I had come ac...
In Birdsong Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Red, the wild, the wild, the wild
Crackling, the leaping of white fire
And spider-like, the dance
Shimmering and crawling over me
A puppet man, a zombie
Lances from the blackness of my eye
I look into the Godmouth
The energy, the energy in us
[Chorus]
There's something in the white matter
Someone in the white matter
I hear song in reverse
Birdsong, song in reverse
I hear me sing
[Verse 2]
A song
That I cannot begin to understand
The slaughter in the sky
Pulling on the magnet in my mind
The stench of it, the rendering
The energy, the energy of us
[Chorus]
There's something in the white matter
Someone in the white matter
I hear song in reverse
Birdsong, song in reverse
I hear me sing
There's something in the white matter
Someone in the white matter
I hear song in reverse
Birdsong, song in reverse
I'm vapour in your love
[Instrumental Break]
[Chorus]
I hear song in reverse
Birdsong, song in reverse
I'm vapour in your love
There's something in the white matter
Someone in the white matter
I hear song in reverse
Birdsong, song in reverse
I'm vapour in your love
In Birdsong Q&A
Who wrote In Birdsong's ?
In Birdsong was written by Jonathan Higgs & Alex Robertshaw & Jeremy Pritchard & Michael Spearman.
Who produced In Birdsong's ?
In Birdsong was produced by John Congleton & Everything Everything & Alex Robertshaw.
When did Everything Everything release In Birdsong?
Everything Everything released In Birdsong on Thu Apr 23 2020.
How did the music video come to be?
The music video for “In Birdsong” features a number of distorted renders of human and other forms, many appearing severely mutated or corrupted. Lead vocalist Jonathan Higgs created the video while the band–and most of the world–was under lockdown during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. According to the...
Who (and what) are the famous cameos in the video?
Musicians in the video include:
- All members of Everything Everything.
- Touring keyboardist for Everything Everything Peter Sené.
- Robin Richards of Dutch Uncles.
-The members of SPQR.
Easter eggs and references include:
- “David Sardine”, who has cameos in other EE music videos and starred in t...
Is the heavy distortion deliberate?
Speaking to Andy Backhouse on Instagram Live, frontman Jon Higgs commented:
In In Birdsong towards the end it gets so distorted – I said to [producer John Congleton], “Can you make it sound like a mastering error?”, like we’ve fucked this up, basically. I wanted people to complain when they heard i...
What did the artists say about the song?
In an interview with Apple Music, lead singer Jonathan Higgs explained:
“I wrote this as a more traditionally orchestral thing, with all these lyrics about becoming conscious and the beginning of time, and staring into your own soul, really deep shit. It was an overblown, quite filmic, soundtrack-y...