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According to Andrew Bird, the album was written to accompany the central track, saying, "I had this song 'Pulaski at Night' that was fresh and ready to go. Rather than wait a few years to put it out, I composed a sort of score to go with it, as if the song were a movie, and I wrapped it in a soundtrack composed of themes that set you up for the ...
Andrew Wegman Bird (born July 11, 1973) is an American indie rock multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter. Since 1996, he has released 16 studio albums, as well as several live albums and EPs, spanning various genres including swing music, indie rock, and folk music.
Are You Serious received generally favourable reviews from music critics, with a score of 78 out of 100 on the review aggregator website Metacritic. [6] NPR's Bob Boilen described Are You Serious as Bird's most personal album to date, writing that "Andrew Bird's lyrics are often a kind of cryptic code, wordplay about the human condition, but on Are You Serious he reveals more about his own ...
"Lyke" is an obsolete word meaning a corpse. It is related to other extant Germanic words such as the German Leiche , the Dutch lijk and the Norwegian lik , all meaning "corpse". It survives in modern English in the expression lychgate , the roofed gate at the entrance to a churchyard, where, in former times, a dead body was placed before ...
Armchair Apocrypha is the fourth solo studio album by the American singer-songwriter Andrew Bird.It was released on March 20, 2007, through Fat Possum Records.The album features more electric guitars, a change from the more acoustic-oriented album Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs, though the songs are similar in character if slightly more straightforward.
My Finest Work Yet is the twelfth solo studio album by Andrew Bird, released on March 22, 2019. It is notable for being Andrew Bird's first overtly political album, [ 2 ] covering topics such as divisive political atmosphere , climate change , and apathy .
The Swimming Hour is the fourth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Andrew Bird, and his third and final with the band Bowl of Fire.It comprises a blend of musical styles from the 20th century including jazz, gospel, rock, classical, Latin and folk, often accompanied by thoughtful, playful or haunting vocals and lyrics.
Noble Beast is the fifth solo studio album by the American singer-songwriter Andrew Bird, and his eighth overall.It was released on January 20, 2009. [1] Two songs from this album were previewed on his webpage; "Oh No" and "Carrion Suite", while the entire album was made available by NPR [2] as a streaming feed.