Birdy: Birdy – review

(14th Floor)Too bad Hampshire 15-year-old Jasmine van den Bogaerde has adopted the rather twee "Birdy" as her stage name – her real one would have been more fitting for this collection of schoolgirlishly sincere indie covers. (She writes her own songs, but stuck to covers for this debut outing because it gave her more time to study for her GCSEs.) Her taste is impeccable, so let's give her the benefit of the doubt and assume that she, rather than her producers, chose the likes of Bon Iver's...

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