Welcome to the working week, rockers! Exploring Birdsong are a piano-led, guitarless (well, unless you count bass guitar) alt pop band from Liverpool, UK. They recently put out a new single called “The Collapse” via Long Branch Records, which is the follow-up to the band’s recent EP Dancing in the Face of Danger. The music video for “The Collapse” is now streaming on YouTube.
Having a piano at the front of a rock band is unusual but hardly unheard of. But save your comparisons to Ben Folds Five because this is nothing like that. The piano and femme vocals give the song a delicateness that feels more akin to Fiona Apple if she had a more powerful, hard-rocking rhythm section behind her. And with the thundering, distorted bass blended with the piano parts, you won’t even miss the guitar in this song. The rhythm section gets into a good groove in the breakdown, too, making for a song that’s somehow both light and airy and packs a punch at the same time.
The lyric “What doesn’t kill you makes you run fast” is definitely my favorite, as it updates Nietzsche’s trite and frankly uninspired famous quote “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.”
The video is deceptively simple, featuring the band playing the song in a white void, but there’s a blurriness at times and some distorted camera angles that give the video the same ethereal feeling as the song itself.
Check out the video below.
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Photo courtesy of Luke Tatlock
