When singer-songwriter Bird York--also an actor and screenwriter--composed the 2006 Academy Award-nominated song "In The Deep" for the Oscar-nominated film Crash, she had no visuals to go on, only a draft of the script by writer-director Paul Haggis. York originally met Haggis in 2000 when she appeared in and conceived music for his critically acclaimed series Family Law, and their fluid collaboration grew out of the fast pace demanded by a weekly hour-long series. Featuring Bird's soulful vocals, "In The Deep"--which also appears on York's major label debut Wicked Little High--wraps an ethereal and haunting aural blanket around Crash's onscreen narrative in a pivotal final sequence, when the crushed and ravaged characters each reflect, in solitude, on what has happened. Quiet, mesmerizing and anything but comforting, the song lingers in memory. ...show more

When singer-songwriter Bird York--also an actor and screenwriter--composed the 2006 Academy Award-nominated song "In The Deep" for the Oscar-nominated film Crash, she had no visuals to go on, only a draft of the script by writer-director Paul Haggis. York originally met Haggis in 2000 when she appeared in and conceived music for his critically acclaimed series Family Law, and their fluid collaboration grew out of the fast pace demanded by a weekly hour-long series. Featuring Bird's soulful vocals, "In The Deep"--which also appears on York's major label debut Wicked Little High--wraps an ethereal and haunting aural blanket around Crash's onscreen narrative in a pivotal final sequence, when the crushed and ravaged characters each reflect, in solitude, on what has happened. Quiet, mesmerizing and anything but comforting, the song lingers in memory.

Nic Harcourt, respected music guru at NPR flagship KCRW-FM/Los Angeles, has called Bird, "a songwriter of extraordinary depth with a voice to match." Billboard's Chris Morris has written--citing her "melodic grace" and affecting honesty"--that, "Bird York's songs subtly reveal those things that rise out of the corners of the night: Memory, reverie, desire, and the emotions that lie cloaked when the sun is high." York began writing songs in her teens, after both her parents died, and her resonant compositions reflect hard-won life experience and a survivor's mettle. "I'm fifteen, homeless, and some older ex-hippie guy gives me a beat-up guitar," she says. "When most girls are worried about what to wear, I am wondering about where I am going to sleep. But I have this guitar and decided I was going to write myself a song to ride out of the freak show called TOO MUCH TOO SOON" "In The Deep" is just one in a sensual and intoxicatingly hypnotic collection of songs on York's Narada/EMI major label album debut, Wicked Little High.

Elegantly delivered and emotionally stirring, the disc subliminally slips, slowly but inevitably, deep into your consciousness with a sound that Music Biz Magazine called "torch trip hop." The album opens with the richly textured and subtly psychedelic "Had A Dream," produced by GRAMMY®-winning engineer/mixer Thom Russo (Macy Gray, Audioslave). The song swirls around the thoughts, "where logic ends, faith begins," and, "wondering if we just try and risk everything for love/how can we ever go wrong." Other stand-outs include the title track, an ironic meditation on the downside of a physical attraction that counters logic and wisdom but persists nevertheless--"Desire is such a wicked little high when the one you want is blind to you." York's insightful lyrics and seductive, smoky vocals make the notion of "the fifth drink before a long drive home" palpable. Wicked Little High also includes collaborations with GRAMMY®-winning producer Larry Klein (Joni Mitchell, Madeline Peyroux), and songs from the album have already aired on the network television shows House, CSI:NY, Everwood, Jake 2.0 and In Justice, as well as in the John Cusack-produced film Never Get Outta The Boat and the New line feature Peaceful Warrior. Songs from her critically acclaimed debut cd have been featured on Nip/Tuck as well as other film and tv projects. ...show less