Andrew Bird – Noble Beast (2009)
Multi instrumentalist and notorious whistler Andrew Bird has a way with words that makes him pretty well irresistible to these ears, indeed, not since the heyday of Steely Dan has pop music sounded so….intelligent. This is an album as fascinating and compulsive as it is erudite, indeed once past the clever wordplay, the music is a beguiling confection of deep strangeness and considerable charm. Check this out for proof…
March 24, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Are you kidding me? You’ve got to have more to say about this guy…He’s a phenom for goodness sake! You hold back. Give a little.
March 24, 2009 at 4:54 pm
I suggest you listen to ‘A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left’…I’d be interested in what you’d say about the lyrics/arrangement/vocals/instrumentals and programming.
March 25, 2009 at 1:31 am
Not sure I’d categorize Andrew Bird as “pop music” in even the widest sense of the word, but he sure is something. It’s always good to have stuff that you can listen to it a few times and get something new out of it every time, and with stuff that’s as layered as this, you tend to get just that.
April 8, 2009 at 11:45 pm
Where you at, dawg?