"In a world without melancholy, nightingales would start to burp." Emil Cioran.

what a rare phenomenon she is. it's a cause for celebration.

I love how she acts as she sings ... she entirely consumes herself in her work.

My favourite shade of cra'y

I think this was the video that sealed the deal, on my new found love for her. She's become my favorite of all time. Fucking love her.

This song makes me cry...

🐦 how delightfully strange, im drawn in like a moth to a light with her musical genius 🐦

Naw, they're just saying "Hey babe, I'll build you a nest if you let me doink you."

This version is so much better than the album version

Dietrich/Piaf... she's already timeless.

I'm laying in my dark house all alone. Sobbing at the beauty of this angel, not a ghost

I still love this now, as much as when I discovered it. Props to the dude on piano, too. 😁🤭❤️

Aldous....you are the perfect blend......^^

More than ever I am deeply in love with her. Aldous Harding is a permanently fulfilling promise 🥰.

I've seen her twice now, once in Montreal when I drove 1000kms just for one night and her show after seeing The Barrel video, then once again in Toronto a couple years later. The Montreal show was very intimate with maybe 75-100 people in a 2nd floor bar. The show in Toronto had about 1000 people. Wish her all the success in the world, but the smaller show was the best.

this is such a perfect song

Aldous is the best new artist 4AD has signed in a long time and that's saying something as they have a lot of great artists... I love how powerful her songs are with such minimalism. She just lets the unspeakable energetic flow of creativity flow through her unfiltered. So beautiful. This could be the theme song for the fight against climate change...

She treads this amazing thin line between grotesque and beautiful. Is she bleating? Is she singing? Is she having a seizure? Meanwhile she asks a really good question

I feel this story miss. Painful when I didn't know my family anymore. Different stories I'm sure. Thank you for sharing your work and gifts with us.

This is a breath of fresh air!

What if birds aren't singing they're screaming I got high, I thought I saw an angel But he was just a ghost He was making wooden posts out of my family What if birds aren't singing they're screaming What if birds aren't singing they're screaming What if my moon gets caught up in my waning Trapped under a sky left blacker than the eyes of my visitors What if birds aren't singing they're screaming What if birds aren't singing they're screaming I got high, I thought I saw an angel But it was just a ghost heaving under his cloak What if birds aren't singing they're screaming What if birds aren't singing they're screaming

She is singing and screaming at the same time and good actor too

Most bird song is used as a territorial display. Perhaps it actually is closer to screaming.

Whatever this is I love everything about it

I listen to this often a year later

Una canzone così, cantata così, non succede spesso; entra nelle ossa e ti attraversa, è nata una stella.

This is totally all consuming, I love it

Staggering & Beautiful

Woooow. I listened to her song Horizon from Wentworth. I had to look her up cause her voice totally mesmorized me. She's amazing and so talented.❤

Wow, beautiful song!♥️

Brilliant of course.

Fascinating ,what a voice ,great songs ,new fan here.

I can whole-heartedly say my favourite concert was yours in the Redroom, Montreal. I will cherish that experience forever. Thank you and endless love from your friends in New Brunswick xx

No Aldous your the Angel with an Angelic voice

Terrific!

so good, jeez, girl!

Love this

Harding is the most interesting act 4ad has had in decades !

Awesome

I think the song's title comes from Angela Carter's tale "The Erl-King".

Maravilhosa como sempre!

If you slow the sound of birds way down, they sound like dinosaurs. Chickens sound completely nuts. As if we really know what dinosaurs sound like. Perhaps they did sound like huge birds though.

A cross between Piaf and Christine Hynde

Aldous must be getting some good shit! 😃

Fine

I love miranda sings !

Je l'adore, je l'écoute en boucle...Par contre, difficile à regarder tant elle grimace

so wonderful and classy, amazing song!😍 does anyone know which kind of epiano this is? sounds great

birds are singing BTW it translates to life is good, follow your bliss, i am happy, love love love.........

God i luv her/ lol

Only discovered this artist today but she’s a little like Regina Spektor. Her track “Beast” is brilliant. Love the lyrics. Not too keen on this one though. Going to check out some more.

Note to self: Don't get high.

Shower Thoughts...

the concepto me da escalofrio y a la vez una risa grandote porque hay unos k me visitan cada dia y now i think theyre no saying hi but "hey feed me!"

Gena- Woman under the influence

what a beautiful song

Aldous. 🌈

Can someone please transcribe the piano? 😍

Werner Herzog says Hi!

Why does something about this song and her vocal remind me of Edith Piaf?

I love her art.

Reminds me of Anthony & the Johnosons

She should record a song about leaving a bad smell in someone else's toilet and not being ashamed.

This is def based on single pigeon by paul :)

Werner Herzog would like this song

Fooking Brilliant artist.

Why the long face?

werner herzog approves!!!

I wrote this to.

On which cd is this song?

anyone know what the chords are for this song?

What a woman!

I think she's right actually. 🤔

2:40

I want to look at the lyrics but can't take my eyes off her face.

Neither singing or screaming.

Piaf ?

she should do acting ( movies )

A bit like Marlene Dietrich!! Love it.

No Aldous they are in fact singin

what's up with her faces?

Sorry to be so anal here, but it is early hours of the morning, and I've read several stories in grammatically incorrect newspapers today, written by people who write for a living, and thus should know better. To the point then; The title of this piece is not even close to correct despite being off target by only a few letters. Consequently, it fails to depict the meaning implied within the song. This seems to be a recurrent theme on KZfaq, which is understandable if Copyright is breached, but just sad when (C) isn't an issue. Our children learn their use of English on here, and similar sites, so there is some need to not just write stuff without any care for accuracy and/or the capture of implied meaning. For the current song, the title suggests that, if birds are not singing, then they are screaming, This title, taken as a statement, is nonsensical. It suggests that the song delivers a statement to the effect that, when birds are not singing, then they are screaming. If this were a true statement, then birds would very quickly get sore throats. Followed to its conclusion, I would say that by observation of behaviour of birds, If Birds are not singing, then they are eating, drinking, sitting quietly, etc. Or, more in keeping with the lyrics, and the likely meaning within the songs lyrics, I would simply quote the lyric itself, "What if birds aren't singing, they're screaming"? It seems likely that bird-song is a territorial shout-out to potential adversaries, to say something like, "this is my patch mate, so p*s$ off somewhere else and build your nest there, else-wise I'll have to kick yer ass!" It's very unlikely they do it because of the pleasing sounds they make...

WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!

A bit too over the top for my blood. Her music doesn’t need the pointless theatrics. But it’s great to hear idiosyncratic pop being sung again.

What a terrible way to look at, and listen to nature.

I think she's a talented woman (and the name of this song is brilliant) but I can't take all of the weird voices she does in her songs. Whether she's doing a weird low-range foreign accent or a high-pitched child-like voice, it's all just a little too much for me. Maybe it has to grow on you over time. I've only heard a few of her songs. For now I'll stick with Courtney Barnett as my favorite female Aussie singer. I'm glad there's a market for what Aldous is doing. It's a lot more interesting than most of the auto tuned BS pop songs out there that are usually sung by someone pretty who didn't even write it.