Vilde Bye 🇳🇴 - ‘Bird up a Tree’

We have a couple of Tromsø artists to feature this next week, the first of whom I’ve been meaning to write about for ages. Vilde Bye is a quietly compelling voice from northern Norway, and her track ‘Bird Up a Tree’ is a lovely introduction.

Now we’ve covered a few fairly heavy lyrical ideas recently, so an acoustic indie-folk song about a bird sitting in a tree really appealed to me the first time I heard it in a very busy train station a couple of weeks ago. Except of course it’s not really about a bird at all, or a tree, it’s a delicate song about missing someone that you really love.

The song is beautifully simple: soft acoustic guitar and Vilde Bye has this distinctive, slightly fragile voice. Nothing is overstated here, just a calm, quietly lovely piece of songwriting, with the key as always the lovely melody. I equally enjoyed previous track ‘Between the Bars’ too, which you’ll be surprised to know, isn’t a track about being locked up in a Tromsø prison cell after a wild Saturday afternoon shoplifting spree, but it is a cover of the excellent Elliot Smith song.

Anyway the new Vilde Bye album comes out on March 20th apparently. I’m really looking forward to hearing it.

Social Links: Instagram