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    Our 2nd album, From the homogenous grey fizz of cloud hanging over deepest Lancashire springs this up-lifting, mad-cowbell infused self-unconscious and nostalgic record from Chorley’s British Birds; 12 songs of journeying through melancholy guided by sweet or shriek harmonies, disco bass, thumping drums and Bobby’s signature loping guitar and swoopy, off-kilter vocals: at times deeply intimate and at others theatrically dizzying with psych. Silence Daedalus is self-released by these staunchly DIY low-key ornithologists.

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lyrics

Busy life
Busy mind
Uninvited
Took me by surprise
Chance encounter
Stopped just to say
It’s unrequited
Too little too late

You tested my reaction time
Did I pass the test?

Devil’s dancing
She took me by the hand
No rhyme or reason
Just an evil plan
Steady hand
And not too many words
Going backwards
As we twist and twirl

Dark night
Subdued
Dancing with her
Not you
Forgotten steps
Cute song
Chance encounter
Gone wrong

You tested my reaction time
Did I pass the test?

I missed the bus and I hate the train
Missed the bus it was my getaway
Wished away
Wished away
Turned the devil grey

You tested my reaction time
Did I pass the test?

I wished away till I got to you
I wished away turned the devil blue
I wished away
Wish you wished away for me too

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from Silence Daedalus, released June 13, 2025

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