Given that her mother is a concert pianist, it’s not surprise that Jasmine Lucilla Elizabeth Jennifer van den Bogaerde, the singer-songwriter also known as Birdy, found music to be a powerful muse.

Birdy’s Young Heart pulses with a familiar sorrow. Battered and bruised, the towering 16-track record, her first in five years, carries a faint whisper of Joni Mitchell’s transcendent Blue. Birdy ...

In our rushed daily lives, it often seems utopian to find time to reflect on past grievances. English indie-folk singer-songwriter Birdy beautifully opens up this space in her fourth studio album ...