Inside Problems is a record built from tangled sheets and night sweats. The relentlessly inquisitive Andrew Bird takes fevered late night/early morning thoughts and turns them into songs. Across Inside Problems he seeks reassurance and answers to both big and […]
The multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Andrew Bird creates little worlds over the arcs of his albums. His records are miniature places of possibility. On his latest, My Finest Work Yet on Loma Vista Recordings, Bird conjures up images of old movies, […]
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Two weeks ago, jazz bassist, singer, and composer Esperanza Spalding launched an ambitious project called “Exposure.” It was a 10-song album that would be, unbelievably, written and recorded with numerous guest musicians in the course of 77 hours. And the […]
Longtime ND photographer Steve Ford recently attended the Bluesfest Byron Bay, Australia’s premiere blues and roots festival that features many American artists. This year’s lineup included Patti Smith, Mavis Staples, Buddy Guy, Bonnie Raitt, Rhiannon Giddens, Kasey Chambers, Hubby Jenkins, Andrew Bird, […]
When an artist releases an album that really resonates with a wide swath of people, it can be a challenge to match that kind of momentum with a follow-up. In a way, it’s unfair to compare one album with another; […]
Are You Serious isn’t Andrew Bird’s first release since 2012’s Break It Yourself. In between, there were the EPs Hands of Glory and I Want to See Pulaski at Night, a collection of Handsome Family covers and the instrumental experiment […]
The Handsome Family are limited-edition. They are off-centre, bottomless, on the surface, and skewed. They create music that has been described as country-noir, bluegrass, Americana, gothic, murder ballad, alt-country — the list goes on, but you get the picture. Rennie […]
Busting entirely out of the intimate space he created on 2003’s Weather Systems, Andrew Bird inhabits an emotional range and resonance on his new album that we’ve only glimpsed elsewhere in his catalog. With Armchair Apocrypha (think apocalypse from the […]
