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Release Date Friday 26th June 2026
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
“What’s remarkable is how such a new band have both hit upon and fully delivered on their
genuinely idiosyncratic vision so early on.” Kerrang Magazine
“It's taken a long time, but it's an enticing, many-layered listen.” PROG Magazine
Exploring Birdsong bring their genre blending sensibilities to 2026 with the release of their
anticipated debut album ‘Every House We Built’. Fronted by Lynsey Ward, dubbed by
Rocksound as ‘one of the most stunning vocalists that the UK has at its disposal…’ she is
backed by ‘extraordinary’ bass player Jonny Knight, and ‘mighty’ drummer Matt Harrison.
From early demoing in 2022 the trio have been working tirelessly to meticulously craft the
vivid world in which all twelve tracks live, and that listeners can expect to be immersed in
once they hit ‘play’. Sophisticated and matured, Exploring Birdsong deliver on their
distinctive sound established in 2019, whilst pulling back the curtain on some of the more
obscure influences that have inspired the band to make the music they will be introducing
us to this summer.
Exploring Birdsong about the album title:
"Very simply, Every House We Built is an exploration of our interpersonal relationships. Be it
friendships, familial or romantic, for the first time we have written from our experiences
rather than putting an existing story or concept to music. Houses, in this instance, are being
used symbolically as a means to depict these connections, and how we have reflected on
our experiences. We discuss how our, and everybody's relationships come and go much in
the same way that houses do - taking time to be carefully built into safe loving spaces, but
needing no time at all to be destroyed. Whilst the lyrics to the title track were being written,
(and possibly because of the position of the lyric in the song itself) 'every house we built'
stuck out. After sitting with it a while, the phrase started to take on a deeper and more
expansive significance, triggering further ideas that eclipsed more than a singular meaning
in one of the songs on the record - this expanse giving gradually more and more weight to
the idea of this being the album title. As this title came to the fore, we realised that that
many of the songs on the album already referenced houses / homes and other adjacent
things in their lyrics. There are constant nods and threads that tie the album and its themes
together."
2. 42
3. Romanticise
4. Footprints
5. Arrhythmia
6. Spy In The House Of Love
7. I_You
8. The Warning
9. You Like It Best When It Hurts
10. Cartography
11. Every House We Built
12. Meadowlands
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