Album review: Birdy, Beautiful Lies

Jasmine Lucilla van den Bogaerde was just 14 when her cover of Bon Iver’s ‘Skinny Love’ blew up on YouTube. But while the interpretation won her an overnight fan-base, it might have been to the long term detriment of her career, pigeonholing her as it did a purveyor of plangent middle of the road warbling.

Her second collection of completely original material thoroughly demolishes any suggestion that Den Bogaerde — who has wisely embraced the shorter stage name of Birdy — is a simpering mass-market artist.