The comedian Nick Revell once performed a show based on the premise of exploring birdsong. It was hilarious, funny enough to remember decades later. The premise was that beneath the beautiful songs were base emotions. If you understood what the songs were about you would be driven mad by the mixture of relationships, territoriality, romance, all the things birds sing about. As such, Exploring Birdsong seems like the ideal name for a band. Because, of course, it’s how birds express themselves; Communication through beauty. That seems like a great way to define their debut album ‘Every House We Built’.
Discussing the record’s sound is quite difficult without mentioning the idea of genre collapse. Genres are basically categories for discussing music. They’re elastic and difficult to define, especially after the late 90s when the boundaries between genres became increasingly blurred. Once nu-metal hit the mainstream, it became difficult to describe what sound a band was pursuing or…
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