Thursday 26 January 2012
He breaks it, I buy it
Cameron Wittig
In the early days of QBiM, it seemed strange if a month went by where I didn’t write something about Andrew Bird, let alone years between posts. A brief recap is in order, then? Bird’s 2007 album Armchair Apocrypha was a shoo-in for end of year honours ’round these parts after its March release that year, and was probably the most played album of ’07 for me. 2009′s Noble Beast was good, but didn’t have the pull of its predecessor. Since then, there’s been nary a chirp out of Bird, hence the silence on his whereabouts hereabouts.
Bird is breaking the silence with Break It Yourself, his new record due on March 6 via Mom+Pop Music, and the release of album track “Eyeoneye” by that other site earlier this week. the newsy, PR-ish thing to tell you is that the record is available for pre-order in all kinds of deluxe linen wrappings and with download codes, booklets and a stationary and stamp set; the music geek thing to tell you is that “Eyeoneye” sounds like a recharged and revitalized Bird, sounding better than I’d have expected.
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