Every good thing must come to an end, and the Stray Birds have chosen to end their 7 year story with this last album: Let It Pass. This fourth release is probably the most powerful of their short career. Synonymous with challenge and personal ultimatum, the trio seems more united than ever on this romantic performance. And yet the romantic break-up between Maya De Vitry and Oliver Craven did not fail to disrupt the band’s and Charlie Muench’s mood. Each member brought fragments of melodies, ideas for choruses and other musical constructions in the most collective mood ever. Exhibiting their intimacy and their striking, and at the other end sometimes completely unusable, inspirations, the Stray Birds came to an honest and delicate creation. Recorded in only five days, this is with The Bridge, a title that exhibits everything in their relationship, that the band starts and provokes a certain empathy when listening to it. A light folk that sometimes soars into country rock, or even into nostalgic harmonica ballads like on Light as a Fire. The Stray Birds take their leave with elegance. © Anna Coluthe/Qobuz