Exploring Birdsong will release their debut album in June – and you can hear “the heaviest Birdsong music to date” via their newly-unveiled single You Like it Best When It Hurts…
Exploring Birdsong have announced their debut album, Every House We Built.
Due out on June 26 via Long Branch Records, the LP reportedly hears the trio ‘turn inwards, drawing from lived experiences to explore the complexities of relationships spanning friendships, family and romance’.
On the subject of those lived experiences, they’ve dropped a new single, You Like It Best When It Hurts, which is about a certain type of person they’ve “all come across…”
“You Like It Best… actually began its life as a completely different song, but easily found a way to take the shape that it has now,” begins vocalist Lynsey Ward. “For as long as we’ve been a band we’ve been proud that our sound has such broad shoulders, so we felt we could really push our influences from heavy music out into the open with this one and create the heaviest Birdsong music to date.
“Lyrically, it is written about observing a type of person that we have all come across – self-sabotaging and self-destructive almost to the point where it seems that they can’t – or don’t want to – break the cycle. More new territory for us, as we’re now equipped to convey anger and aggression convincingly – it felt completely natural to write a bit of a love letter to heavy music whilst channelling our own frustrations.”
Check out You Like It Best When It Hurts below:
And catch the band live this year:
Exploring Birdsong 2026 tour dates
September
23 Glasgow Classic Grand
24 London Islington Assembly Hall
25 Bristol Strange Brew
26 Manchester Gorilla
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