Progressive alt-pop outfit Exploring Birdsong have just dropped “Spy In The House Of Love,” the latest single lifted from their long-awaited debut full-length, Every House We Built, due out June 26 via Long Branch Records. If you’re the type who likes your heartbreak served with shimmering synths, fluttering piano, and the kind of vocal performance that makes your ribcage feel slightly too small, this one is going to live rent-free in your headphones.

Watch the official video here: https://youtu.be/YM9ZBblQn9o

The track finds vocalist Lynsey Ward digging into the emotional rubble of a heavy breakup, sparked, oddly enough, by a chance encounter with the Anaïs Nin novel of the same name. “I came across the book ‘Spy in the House of Love’ by accident one day, and immediately felt compelled by how the phrase had organized a lot of messy feelings while being in the throes of a heavy break-up,” Ward explains. “There is actually very little that the book and our song have in common, but discovering it did catalyze a great deal of focus creatively and personally. Everyone at some stage has felt confused or betrayed in heartbreak, and we are far from the first to write a song about it. It is quite new territory for us, though!”

That sense of “new territory” is precisely what makes Every House We Built feel like such a pivotal release for the Liverpool-formed trio. Where past EPs leaned into conceptual storytelling, the debut LP swaps the high-concept scaffolding for something much more bare-knuckle and personal. Using the metaphor of houses, Exploring Birdsong examine the fragile architecture of human connection: how friendships, families, and romances are painstakingly built, and how quickly the foundations can crack.

Across twelve tracks, the band navigate anxiety, toxic dynamics, inherited grief, longing, and absence, but it isn’t all doom and existential drywall dust. There are pockets of warmth, hope, and self-realization too, with the record ultimately landing on a note of renewal. The message? Even when everything collapses, there is still something worth rebuilding.

After releasing the single, Exploring Birdsong will hit the road for their biggest UK headline run to date this September, kicking off in Glasgow on the 23rd and wrapping in Manchester on the 26th, with stops in London and Bristol along the way.

EXPLORING BIRDSONG UK HEADLINE TOUR 2026:
9/23 — Glasgow, Scotland — Classic Grand
9/24 — London, England — Islington Assembly Hall
9/25 — Bristol, England — Strange Brew
9/26 — Manchester, England — Gorilla

Every House We Built arrives June 26 via Long Branch Records. Pre-order the album, grab tour tickets, and prepare to have your emotional floorplan rearranged.