Charmingly whimsical and eminently melodic (not to mention its faintly gothic lyrical imagery and magnificent, breathy tail-off) … - 10/04
You know how some songs just push buttons that you didn’t even know you had to be pushed? Well, “Birthday” does that to me. It’s both ‘indie’ and ‘pop’ par excellence, and it has a magic which defies explanation — it glided down the sky, she touched it.