Artist: Andrew Bird
Title: Noble Beast
Label: Bella Union
Genre: Indie
Bitrate: 183kbit av.
Time: 00:54:11
Size: 76.63 mb
Rip Date: 2009-01-14
Str Date: 2009-02-02
1. Oh No 4:20
2. Masterswarm 6:35
3. Fitz And The Dizzy Spells 3:36
4. Effigy 5:06
5. Tenuousness 3:51
6. Nomendclature 2:54
7. Ouo 0:20
8. Not A Robot, But A Ghost 5:37
9. Unfolding Fans 0:57
10. Anonanimal 4:47
11. Natural Disaster 4:18
12. The Privateers 3:24
13. Souverian 7:18
14. Oh Ho 1:08
Release Notes:
Multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird follows 2007's critical
success Armchair Apocrypha with an intricate beauty of an LP
that's by turns introspective and instinctive, but always
unique. Bird isn't a singer-songwriter in the conventional,
Dylanesque sense of the word: he doesn't allow his vocal
personality to dominate. Instead, the real charm of the record
lies in Bird's extraordinary attention to musical detail: each
track has its own ambience painstakingly created through
layers of instrumental tracks of which Bird's trademark
sardonic voice is just one.
This atmosphere is fleshed out by whistling and wordless
backing vocals, while Bird's trademark awkward phrasing holds
down lyrics that occasionally sound like they might fly off on
the wings of their own weirdness. Bird concerns himself with
the building and the breaking down of a pastoral idyll,
underpinning his virtuoso violin work, evocative of natural
landscapes, with edgy, nervous rhythms (most notably on the
melancholy borderline-funk of standout Anonanimal) and the
occasional painfully raw peal of feedback low in the mix. On
this eighth effort, Andrew Bird creates a Noble Beast of a
record with almost human complexity.