Everything Everything Return With New Single In Birdsong
Friday, 24 April 2020
Written by Huw Baines
Everything Everything are back.
The indie-pop experimentalists have unveiled a new single called In Birdsong, following up their 2017 LP ‘A Fever Dream’ and its successor, the ‘Deeper Sea’ EP. Produced by John Congleton, it’s a meditative slice of electronica punctuated by Jonathan Higgs’ falsetto and undulating melodies. The vocalist said:
“In Birdsong tries to imagine what it would have been like to have been the first self-aware human. I had come across a concept by psychology academic Julian Jaynes, the Bicameral Mind Theory: the idea that at one stage humans had two separate minds, one inside each half of our brains, and messages or commands would be delivered by one and received by the other. These ‘voices’ were thought to be those of the divine. The theory claims that the eventual melding of these two minds into the two-sided human brain we have now was the dawn of mankind’s consciousness.
“I wanted to somehow insert this evolutionary psychology into a song because I felt so in awe of the idea. I found a deep sense of wonder at its core, about life and the world. It applies to songs about love, sex, life, death and humanity - the things I’ve always written about. We weren’t intending to share this song right now, but in the age of Coronavirus, we wanted to be responsive to the changed landscape and ‘In Birdsong’ unexpectedly emerged as the most appropriate song to reappear with.
“Birdsong has accompanied human life since before we were even human, but in the recent century it has been obscured or pushed out of our lives. In the song I talk about hearing birdsong and knowing we are conscious and alive. With fewer cars and planes, and less human intervention generally, we’ve all been given the opportunity to reconnect with resurgent nature, and where we all are, for this brief moment - In Birdsong.”
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