Different Kinds of Light

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The Northumberland-born star has veered from her Americana-influenced sound after ironically a stint in Nashville broadened her palette.

When Jade Bird began to garner attention back in 2017, she was quickly categorised as a country-folk singer; many of the Northumberland-born stars songs were acoustic guitar ballads against Americana-tinged vocals her first EP was aptly named Something American. But despite Bird embracing her Southern influences, she wants people to know theres more to her as a musician. I always felt like people were really trying to box me into a genre and a style, she told NME in her recent digital cover story.

Its ironic, then, that Bird found the new alt-rock sound that courses through her second album, Different Kinds Of Light, in Nashville, Americas home of country music. Now settled in Austin, and having performed onstage with American songwriting legends such as Sheryl Crow and Brandi Carlile, Bird recorded much of the album in Nashvilles famed RCA Studios alongside veteran producer Dave Cobb. The settings cultural aura proved to be the artists muse the vessel for her to channel a more grown-up, well-travelled Jade Bird.

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Jade Bird Different Kinds Of Light review: eclectic follow-up stays true to her roots