It's been darn near two years since last we heard a fresh collection of tunes from one of Chicago's most virtuosic of musical residents.
Andrew Bird - he of the classically trained violin mastery and otherworldly whistling tendencies - last released
Armchair Apocrpyha back in early '07. An impressive gem of an album,
Armchair played like the culmination of the idiosyncratic musician's many sonic talents, scoring big with critics and fans alike along the way. Now Bird's hoping his latest will pickup famously where his last record left off.
Set for a January 27th release on
Fat Possum, Bird's given his latest release the title,
Noble Beast...an appropriate namesake given the gentlemanly musician's monstrous talent as a performer. While not enough has surfaced from
Noble Beast to allow us to form any kind of concrete kind of opinion, Bird himself has not shied from weighing in on his latest effort. In a post in his New York Times blog
Measure for Measure back in June, Bird shamelessly declared, "I listened to my record recently and I'm concerned about how much I like it." Concern? This hardly sounds like a problem to us... -
david pitz
Bird is currently in the middle of a short tour. We've got all the dates, as well as a complete track listing for the new record below
Noble Beast Tracklist
01 Oh No
02 Masterswarm
03 Fitz and the Dizzyspells
04 Effigy
05 Tenuousness
06 Nomenclature
07 Not a Robot, But a Ghost
08 Anonanimal
09 Natural Disaster
10 Confess
11 Souverian
12 On Ho!
Andrew Bird on Tour:
10/06/08 - Hiro Ballroom @ Maritime Hotel - New York, NY
10/07/08 - Hiro Ballroom @ Maritime Hotel - New York, NY
10/07/08 - Music Hall Of Williamsburg - Brooklyn, NY
10/08/08 - The Music Hall - Portsmouth, NH
10/09/08 - Swyer Theatre @ The Egg - Albany, NY
10/10/08 - Calvin Theater - Northampton, MA
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Andrew Bird on Myspace
other sites reporting on andrew bird
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Andrew Bird readies his Noble Beast
Andrew Bird Unleashes the ‘Noble Beast’ « Modern Mystery
New Andrew Bird Song
Andrew Bird takes on a Beast
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indiemuse.com - New Andrew Bird
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Saints & Sounds | New Andrew Bird album
Nieuw album Andrew Bird eind januari: Noble Beast | Alternative.blog.nl
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