"If the night, wont let you rest / Let me show you what I wear to go out dancing at 3am..."
The breadth, scope and confessional beauty of "All on the black", by Hemel Hempstead, England based singer-songwriter Minnie Birch, is a rare artistic outreach that feels like a personal glimpse, a cache of letters and photos in a wooden box kept underneath a bed away from prying eyes. This is to say that nothing here is untoward but Birch's vocal countenance feels so intimately drawn / constructed from shards of pain into something so heartfelt that we, as the audience, feel like eavesdroppers. Birch, within her words, open her heart in what feels like a risky loving proposition of sorts, lays her feelings on the line despite the result might cause emotional bruises. There is the sense that this gift is being offered to someone who has also had their heartbroken as well. Two people who despite being through the messes of life are willing to kind of clean each other up as well as themselves.
"All on the black" with it's sparse folk, folk indie pop atmospheres is one of those songs that I want to blow up in such a way that all kinds of artists cover it. It is a simply put, a goddamned beautiful song from concept to execution. A forever song, a timeless song and Birch's dancing, pirouetting moving vocal melodies are so evocative, so beyond pretty.
Minnie Birch offered this:
"Releasing music for the first time in 4 years since fighting off cancer. I am achingly proud of this and hope you love it."
I do love it and cannot imagine anyone not loving it and congratulations on your fight. I personally know a few loved ones who have has such battles. It is an incredibly difficult fight indeed. In the end, "All on the black" feels like a terribly moving, beautiful indie film that I want to see.
Here are the poetic lyrics:
If the night, wont let you rest
Let me show you what I wear to go out dancing at 3am
And if you're scared of the morning light
Let me cut it and roll it and we can smoke it away if you like.
We can go to sex clubs
when they've shut the bars
Anywhere that will take money for alcohol
Money that isn't even ours
I will never judge you
for the hand you've been dealt
I once put it all on the black, I lost the lot
I know a little about how you must have felt
I only date inappropriate men
they have tattoos on their chests reading "I will never call you again"
They're wearing red flags, they're still the ones I choose
Because it hurts a little less if you already know just how you're going to lose
We can go to sex clubs
when they've shut the bars
Anywhere that will take money for alcohol
Money that isn't even ours
I will never judge you
for the hand you've been dealt
I once put it all on the black, I lost the lot
I know a little about how you must have felt
or maybe we could stay home, shut all the doors
and you could wake up next to someone who just wants to love you a little bit more
You could sober up, go take a shower
learn that the best thing about you is your pain, it is your power
but we just go to sex clubs, once they've shut the bars
LINER NOTES (bracketed):
[This is a song about rock bottom. It is a song about dragging yourself out of rock bottom. It is about the magic you can still find when you’re down there, and the people who will love you through it. It is about realising that your pain is your power. There is no obvious movie happy ending, more a series of forever believing that things will get better, dancing in the good moments and making lemonade in the darker times (or as I have always done, when life has given me lemons, make songs! - minnie birch]
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Minnie writes dark, plaintive, beautiful music about life, love and loss. She has been BBC radio 1s introducing artist of the week and her last record was a Sunday Times top 100 record of the year. She is releasing music for the first time in 4 years, having taken time out due to fighting a rare form of tissue cancer. This song is a return to form but with the added desire and drive of someone who thought they'd truly lost the lot...
"All on the black" with it's sparse folk, folk indie pop atmospheres is one of those songs that I want to blow up in such a way that all kinds of artists cover it. It is a simply put, a goddamned beautiful song from concept to execution. A forever song, a timeless song and Birch's dancing, pirouetting moving vocal melodies are so evocative, so beyond pretty.
Minnie Birch offered this:
"Releasing music for the first time in 4 years since fighting off cancer. I am achingly proud of this and hope you love it."
I do love it and cannot imagine anyone not loving it and congratulations on your fight. I personally know a few loved ones who have has such battles. It is an incredibly difficult fight indeed. In the end, "All on the black" feels like a terribly moving, beautiful indie film that I want to see.
Here are the poetic lyrics:
If the night, wont let you rest
Let me show you what I wear to go out dancing at 3am
And if you're scared of the morning light
Let me cut it and roll it and we can smoke it away if you like.
We can go to sex clubs
when they've shut the bars
Anywhere that will take money for alcohol
Money that isn't even ours
I will never judge you
for the hand you've been dealt
I once put it all on the black, I lost the lot
I know a little about how you must have felt
I only date inappropriate men
they have tattoos on their chests reading "I will never call you again"
They're wearing red flags, they're still the ones I choose
Because it hurts a little less if you already know just how you're going to lose
We can go to sex clubs
when they've shut the bars
Anywhere that will take money for alcohol
Money that isn't even ours
I will never judge you
for the hand you've been dealt
I once put it all on the black, I lost the lot
I know a little about how you must have felt
or maybe we could stay home, shut all the doors
and you could wake up next to someone who just wants to love you a little bit more
You could sober up, go take a shower
learn that the best thing about you is your pain, it is your power
but we just go to sex clubs, once they've shut the bars
LINER NOTES (bracketed):
[This is a song about rock bottom. It is a song about dragging yourself out of rock bottom. It is about the magic you can still find when you’re down there, and the people who will love you through it. It is about realising that your pain is your power. There is no obvious movie happy ending, more a series of forever believing that things will get better, dancing in the good moments and making lemonade in the darker times (or as I have always done, when life has given me lemons, make songs! - minnie birch]
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://www.instagram.com/minniebirch
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Minnie writes dark, plaintive, beautiful music about life, love and loss. She has been BBC radio 1s introducing artist of the week and her last record was a Sunday Times top 100 record of the year. She is releasing music for the first time in 4 years, having taken time out due to fighting a rare form of tissue cancer. This song is a return to form but with the added desire and drive of someone who thought they'd truly lost the lot...
Minnie Birch, UK singer songwriter, musician, folk, folk indie, pop, baroque pop, indie, dream pop, bedroom pop, "All on the black", beautifully evocative vocal presence, stunning, forever song,
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