From London to Berlin, it's all change for Wallis Bird: the provocative Irish singer and songwriter knows full well the difference between true and false. The tone and tune on Architect is radically different from Bird's 2012 Meteor Choice Music Prize-nominated album, but the changeover is realised not just with attention to detail but also by never allowing complacency to set in. There's also a sense that whatever perceptions we have about Bird will be flipped. The first track, Hardly Hardly, stakes the album's claim as something of a game changer – it's a clubby anthem that will leave some of her fanbase scratching their heads. Ditto Gloria, a kind of giddy, glittery disco thing you never thought you'd hear on a Wallis Bird album. And so it
goes. New cities, new influences and new sounds equal new Bird. wallisbird.com

Download: I Can Be Your Man, Gloria, River of Paper