The Birds Outside Sang

The Birds Outside Sang is an album about the speed at which rain falls, life goes on, and people grow. It's one part a personal, autobiographical, and almost completely chronological telling of a time in my life full of confusion, physical + emotional pain, loneliness, and hope. It is another part a rebirth of a musical friendship between my best friends in the whole world, and an attempt to highlight the importance of love and the things in life that give you something special to hold on to, to find a calm that can carry you through being alive and being scared. Thank you for listening. My one and only goal is that someone can listen to this album and feel/see something, and take it with them as a thought. - Emily of Florist

The Birds Outside Sang is an unassuming, deeply personal record that manages to shoehorn some big ideas into three-minute pop songs. It’s an album that invites us to appreciate the mundane, to look out at the world and be awed by the majesty and fragility of it all.

Bandleader Emily Sprague builds tension by juxtaposing themes like childhood and adulthood, hope and doubt, gender and sexuality and life and death, which drive the forward momentum of the album. Darkness and light permeate the album as Sprague explores her mortality following a serious bicycle accident that left her bedridden with a broken arm and neck.