yellowbirddd isn't afraid of anything. (And by yellowbirddd I mean songwriter, Liam McCormack.) And by "isn't afraid of anything" I mean, "is afraid of everything." And by "everything" I mean "only afraid of a few things". A few really personal, human, intimate things. And that's the point actually - that he is afraid, but he marches on anyway.
yellowbirddd is afraid the that losses we suffer and the sadness we feel from those losses might not go away; that it's the new norm. And that the act of missing has and will continue to change us in ways we can't predict or totally understand. We all miss things once they go away and on some level we're all afraid of the same things. But we, like yellowbirddd, know that even if we get those things back, that they won't fill the very space they created. Once some things are gone they carve out a space that's bigger than the place they once lived, and the act of missing them, changes us.
The album missing is an intimate snapshot into one person's artistic catharsis from the feeling and act of missing. The listener witnesses him run the gamut of emotions from melancholy, nostalgia, and frustration, to optimism and self-delusion. Take a listen. See where the songs take you.