Liverpool’s music scene has another new name to add to the list.
Bird of the Muses only officially launched themselves to the world this month, but the new Liverpool band are approaching things rather differently from an act still trying to work out what comes next.
Their debut single ‘Misplaced Alien’ arrived independently on 3 November.
A full debut album is already recorded.
And before 2026 is finished, they’ll be giving an invited Liverpool audience an early listen to the whole thing.
A song for people who don’t quite fit
‘Misplaced Alien’ provides the first public introduction to Bird of the Muses.
The band say the song is about people who feel as though they don’t belong, an idea broad enough to resonate with anyone who has ever felt slightly out of place.
It’s an appropriate starting point for a group launching without a record label, management company or established industry machine behind them.
Bird of the Muses describe themselves as completely independent, with the band’s public launch deliberately timed around the release of the single.
Behind the scenes, however, they have been working for considerably longer.
Their press material describes a sound that has drawn comparisons with a rather eclectic trio of reference points: Fleetwood Mac, ABBA and The Killers.
That gives some indication of the ambition here. This isn’t a band planning to spend the next year gradually assembling enough material for an EP.
They already have an album.
Sunshine Rainbows arrives in 2027
The debut record is called Sunshine Rainbows, with Bird of the Muses currently planning to release it in early 2027.
Before then, the band will introduce the album at a private listening party at Tonight Josephine in Liverpool city centre on Wednesday 25 November.
For a band that barely existed publicly before the beginning of November, unveiling an entire album less than a month after the first single is a fairly confident opening move.
Building towards a full live band
The next stage will be taking those songs properly onto Liverpool stages.
Bird of the Muses say they intend to be out gigging during 2027 with a full live band, bringing the material from Sunshine Rainbows into a live setting.
And they are already looking beyond album number one.
The band’s current plan is to record a second album before the end of 2027 — an unusually busy roadmap for a project whose first single has only just arrived.
That independent approach is an important part of the story.
There is no management company announcing a carefully staged campaign and no label presenting Bird of the Muses as the next big thing.
For now, it is simply a Liverpool band putting the music out themselves and trying to build an audience around it.
Bringing a little light
There is also a straightforward idea behind what they want the band to become.
“We live in uncertain times,” their introductory email explains, with Bird of the Muses saying that bringing some “joy or light” to people through their music is ultimately the goal.
There’s something refreshingly uncomplicated about that.
Liverpool has never been short of new bands, but it is always interesting when one arrives seemingly fully formed.
With ‘Misplaced Alien’ now out, Sunshine Rainbows already finished and live dates being planned for next year, Bird of the Muses have given themselves plenty to build on.
The public launch may only just have happened.
The work, clearly, started some time ago.
