Birthh - Born in the Woods (2017)
Birthh - Born in the Woods (2017)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) +cue, log, m3u - 171 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 74 MB | 00:31:31
Indie Pop, Downtempo | Label: We Were Never Being Boring
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) +cue, log, m3u - 171 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 74 MB | 00:31:31
Indie Pop, Downtempo | Label: We Were Never Being Boring
‘Born In The Woods’ (recorded by Lorenzo Caperchi and Alessandro at Red Carpet Studios, Italy) is the creation of 19 year old Alice Bisi also known as BIRTHH and was debuted at SXSW this year – quite an achievement for a debut album, upon listening however, it makes sense. A stormy adolescence re-shaped Alice’s song-writing from an instinctive folk sensibility to something altogether more dynamic – there are nods to St.Vincent, TORRES and The XX throughout this album. Even with these apparent similarities this is ultimately a ‘pop’ album, that said however, it is a cool, contemporary ‘pop’ album – an album full of down tempo ambient atmospheres that contrast with clean fragmented beats.
The album opens with Gospel style harmonies before an intermittent drum beat interrupts the smooth piano/vocal intro, towards the end of the track there are some St. Vincent-esque finger clicks and drum stick clicks (think the handclaps in Apocalypse Song) which bring an almost climax to the track. The first thing that is apparent when listening to this album is how smooth Alice’s vocals are, in fact, this album has a very smooth feel to it – perfect for Sunday morning listening.
‘Interlude for the Lifeless’ introduces itself with bubbling water, in fact it’s not unlike something you’d hear on a Zen mood compilation, well maybe, that is until we are told that ‘this is how I wanna die’ whilst wispy vocals meander in the background.
The various ‘interludes’ throughout help to break the album up into parts, or chapters if you like, giving it a sense of purpose, a sense of direction and structure, it makes me wish I had this on vinyl so each ‘part/chapter’ would be self-contained on each side of the disc creating little vignettes of ideas and atmosphere.
On the surface this feels very much like a pop album but if you delve a little below the surface you’ll find darker lyrical themes waiting for you adding to the contrasting nature of ‘Born in the Woods’. This album has already made on to various ‘Best of 2016’ lists…it’s easy to hear why.
TRACKLIST
01. Prelude For The Loveless
02. Chlorine
03. Queen Of Failureland
04. Interlude For The Lifeless
05. Senses
06. Wraith
07. If You Call Me Love
08. Interlude For The Hopeless
09. (Bahnhof)
10. For The Heartless
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BIRTHH / Born in the Woods
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EAC extraction logfile from 1. February 2017, 11:46
BIRTHH / Born in the Woods
Used drive : HL-DT-STDVDRAM GT50N Adapter: 1 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 103
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
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Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
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1 | 0:00.00 | 3:01.41 | 0 | 13615
2 | 3:01.41 | 3:13.30 | 13616 | 28120
3 | 6:14.71 | 3:19.13 | 28121 | 43058
4 | 9:34.09 | 3:01.00 | 43059 | 56633
5 | 12:35.09 | 2:37.74 | 56634 | 68482
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7 | 20:17.08 | 3:14.00 | 91283 | 105832
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9 | 24:52.05 | 2:55.34 | 111905 | 125063
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