Firstly, I owe an apology to Drew and his band Icarus Phoenix. They are a great band and although I have covered them, I should have wrote about them far more. If you follow the Bandcamp link below, you can discover their excellent wares.
But this is solo Danburry and very different to the band. It is an incredible piece of work. The pop sensibilities are clearly present, but the sound is more stripped down and at times, it feels a little Folk or Americana, wonderfully so.
But there is a jauntiness in other moments with great jaunty Pop choruses. The Brass arrangements are particularly effective, they make a big difference to songs, enhancing songs without kidnapping them. They fill the spaces beautifully.
Stripped down, it works, particularly on the hypnotic Ashes. It can also be melancholic. The opener, Bird, is such, but still gripping and it has a feel of the 99 Red Balloons verse. The instrumental arrangement is absolutely superb.
Shadow is very jaunty and reveals those pop sensibilities. The chorus on Love shows the Pop off even more. 20 years in the making and released as a children's story as well as a cassette with audio narration. Bird Songs is an exhaustive project and musically, the EP proves what a tour de force it is.
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