Jealous of the Birds Release Acoustic Edition of PLASTIC SKELETONS

Jealous of the Birds share an acoustic version and live in-studio video recording of the single "Plastic Skeletons" from the forthcoming EP titled The Moths Of What I Want Will Eat Me In My Sleep, due out July 13 via Canvasback Music (US) and Hand in Hive (UK & Europe). Earlier today, BlackBook premiered the video, saying "the song itself being characteristically a bit psychedelic, a bit Middle Eastern, a bit North African...you can almost imagine [Jealous of the Birds] busking it in the Medina in Marrakech."

"I filmed and edited this acoustic video for 'Plastic Skeletons' in my bedroom one afternoon," shares Namoi Hamilton, aka Jealous of the Birds, "surrounded by plants and heaps of laundry. It's fun to try rearrange a song that was originally intended to be fuzzy and trashily psychedelic into something much mellower. That relaxed style of recording has grown to be part of my process these past few years, so I'm always blissed out to be able to share any little DIY moments like this."

"Plastic Skeletons" has been featured on NPR's All Songs Considered, XPN's Gotta Hear Song of the Week, and BBC Radio 1's Tune of the Week, and remains in constant rotation. Hamilton previously shared that "Plastic Skeletons" was written once she returned from SXSW in 2016 - her first trip to America. There she had a journal that she filled with a collection of notes, and upon returning home, cultivated the song from lyrical and visual memories she'd stashed along the way. Watch the official video for "Plastic Skeletons" on YouTube here.

Jealous of the Birds has been making waves in the indie music scene since her debut EP Capricorn, which she recorded while studying English and Creative Writing at Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Then following the 2016 album release Parma Violets, came a serendipitous SXSW performance that same year that ultimately led to the connection with Canvasback Music.

Additionally, The Moths Of What I Want Will Eat Me In My Sleep EP will include four updated songs from Parma Violets mixed by Ben Baptie (Young Fathers, Daughter, Lianne La Havas, London Grammar). US tour dates will be announced later this year.

For more information and artist updates, visit jealousofthebirdsmusic.com.

TOUR DATES:

September 27 - Dublin, Ireland - The Workman's Club (with Ezra Furman)

October 14 - Dublin, Ireland - Bord Gais Energy Theatre (with Ezra Furman)

Photo Credit: Daniel Alexander Harris

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