Reflecting on Birdy’s many achievements, (discovered at the age of just 12 years old, she has amassed over 1.6 billion streams worldwide, 1 billion YouTube views, 7.1 million monthly Spotify listeners and boasts 4.7 million album sales to date, not to mention she has written songs for The Hunger Games, Disney Pixar’s Brave, The Fault in Our Stars and The Edge of Seventeen), it’s easy to forget that she is only 24 years old. Soon the world will be able to hear the results in her upcoming album, Young Heart. Home to the greatest heartache songs ever written, visiting Nashville had a profound effect on the Lymington-born singer, and drawing from artists like Joni Mitchell and Nick Drake, she became consumed with the idea of the tussle between the vastness of space and the interior of home, and the conflict between wanting to hide away and feeling compelled to leave. She reveals why creating a heartbreak record has been her most difficult but rewarding project yet, and how she has made loneliness her ally.Ī five year gap between albums may sound like a long interval, but for Birdy, taking time to stop, experience the world and find out who she really is was a necessary circuit break. With her fourth studio album, Young Heart, Birdy has crafted her most personal body of work to date. It’s been five years since the release of her last album, so Birdy wasn't going to let a touch of writer's block stop her from creating her most personal record yet.