Birdtalker Announce Debut Album 'One' + Share "Free Like A Broken Heart"

Today, the Nashville-based Americana quintet Birdtalker announced their highly anticipated full-length debut album One which will be released on June 22nd. They also premiered their new single from the project, “Free Like a Broken Heart," a jangly carefree folk-rocker with expansive melodies and stunning harmonies that soars with a bright optimism.

"The way I experience life is that if you experience a sad thing, it's almost by letting yourself dive straight down into it and feel the stuff that those things don't have a hold on you anymore," described Dani of the new single. "If you ever want to move past the sadness, you have to let it be there for a little while. And then once you allow it to move through you, your heart is still broken, but there's this beauty in knowing that new growth will happen soon."

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 Watch their live stripped-down performance of "Free Like A Broken Heart" HERE.
 
Culling their name from an anecdote about St. Francis of Assisi's ability to converse with sparrows, Birdtalker's path to formation was, much like the success of "Heavy," hardly planned out. "Neither of us were in bands before we started this one," said Dani. The Greens figured out they had some harmonic alchemy early in their relationship, but neither had performed music in public before, even solo, much less imagined starting a band. Zack admits he hadn't even been much of a music lover growing up, but suddenly found himself exposed to a whole new world of music in his 20s. He began drifting towards emotionally intent acts while writing songs with his similarly newly muse-stricken spouse. In Birdtalker, you hear a combination of that utter lack of guile with the kind of songcraft it's hard to believe hasn't been cultivated from birth.
 
Eventually, drummer Andrew Hubright, guitarist Brian Seligman, and bassist Jesse Baker drifted in, all careful not to talk too frequently or blatantly about incorporating as a group. Voice memos of song demos were produced, and suddenly they were a band, in everything but name or confessed intent. "We were very unintentionally doing what we were doing," laughs Dani. "Looking back, Brian and Andy had more of a vision for what we should be doing, and were probably very frustrated that they were dragging us along into becoming a band." All's well that ends collectively.
 
Track List:
01) Ankle Bone
02) Nothing's Right
03) Looking For Love
04) Outside The Lines
05) Autodomesticated Animal
06) Free Like A Broken Heart
07) Be Where You Are
08) Heavy
09) Medea
10) Take It Slow
11) One​

With no label support or media buzz to speak of, their previous song “Heavy,” has become a streaming phenomenon, racking up more that 20 million plays on Spotify captivating listeners who discovered it through Spotify’s Discovery Weekly program, and bringing a freshly intrigued out to see Birdtalker on their first tour, and whetting appetites for One. 

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