“Birdy is both an overnight success story – breaking through at 15 with her cut-glass cover of Bon Iver’s Skinny Love – and a maker of slow-burn hits: her singles have been streamed by the truckload but barely graze the charts (see: the ubiquitous tearjerker Keeping Your Head Up, which nevertheless peaked at No 57). As such, she can count herself a commercial star who exists at some remove from po”
“Birdy's Portraits is her most emotive, explorative album to date”
