| ""Bird in Flight / Tribal Look"" | ||||
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| Single by Toyah | ||||
| Released | 1 February 1980 | |||
| Format | 7" | |||
| Genre | New Wave | |||
| Label | Safari | |||
| Writer(s) | Willcox, Charlie Francis, Bogen, Bush, Bray | |||
| Producer | Matt Dangerfield | |||
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"Bird in Flight"/"Tribal Look" is the third single by Toyah, released on February 1, 1980, by Safari Records.[1] Neither track was featured on an album at the time, though both were added to the 2002 reissue of Sheep Farming in Barnet//The Blue Meaning, and also on the 2005 compilation album The Safari Singles Collection Part 1: 1979-1981.
In February New Musical Express wrote of "Bird In Flight": "Surprisingly gentle song by the banshee from Birmingham. It has an insidious quality that slowly gets under your skin and is a good pop song. The effective keyboards give it a desirable spacy atmosphere. Also more than a nod in Patti Smith's direction".[2]
In 2011, of "Bird in Flight", Toyah said: "I find the lyric excruciatingly wrong. But that might be because I'm older and wiser and prefer what I write today. That said, the Toyah band play it beautifully and they have given it a light, optimistic feel that really lifts the whole set. It dances into the venue and tickles your ears. I just need to ignore the lyric... it's so bloody wrong."[3]
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Catalogue Number: SAFE 22
Produced by Matt Dangerfield. Published by Sweet 'n' Sour Songs Ltd.
Both sides ran at 45RPM.