| Bird, Andrew / Noble Beast |
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| Album: | Noble Beast | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Bird, Andrew | Added: | Jan 2009 | |
| Label: | Fat Possum Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2009-03-08 | Pull Date: | 2009-05-10 |
| Week Ending: | May 10 | May 3 | Apr 19 | Apr 12 | Apr 5 | Mar 29 | Mar 22 | Mar 15 |
| Airplays: | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 14, 2023: | KZSU Time Traveler Fitz And The Dizzyspells | 4. | Jul 17, 2021: | That's Not Bluegrass. (rebroadcast from Dec 5, 2017) Oh No | |
| 2. | Feb 21, 2022: | A Night on the Roof (rebroadcast from Mar 15, 2018) Oh No | 5. | Jul 04, 2021: | KZSU Time Traveler (rebroadcast from Mar 1, 2019) Souverian | |
| 3. | Dec 08, 2021: | That's Not Bluegrass. (rebroadcast from Dec 5, 2017) Oh No | 6. | Apr 02, 2021: | KZSU Time Traveler Masterswarm |
| Album Review |
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| Rafe McBride Reviewed 2009-02-28 | ||
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Unconventional singer-songwriter’s fourth album, featuring plenty of catchy melodies, beautiful singing, great pop-hooks, and all around quality songwriting. There’s a lot of really nicely detailed production, with layered instrumentation, including a fair amount of violin (apparently he’s classically-trained) and some virtuoso whistling. Parts of the album remind me of a more folky/baroque version of the shins, maybe a little of sufjan stevens or even a folky radiohead, but all-in-all a unique sound. No FCCs detected ***1) Great melodies throughout, nice whistling, nice strings, hand claps **2) After a 1 min low-key intro, breaks-out into nice flamenco-style rhythm with nice violin…great hooks throughout. 3) More upbeat, sounding a little like m ward **4) After 1 min violin intro, Calexico style rhythm kicks in, more of a stripped down sound, rustic fiddles 5) Lyric-centric, with shuffling rhythm, cool picked string sounds 6) Starts slow, builds throughout, kind of sounds like a baroque shins 7) 20 sec interlude of ambient sounds 8) Lots of looped beats, ambient synths..sounds like radiohead 9) Instrumental interlude 10) Staccato finger-picking, nice repeating phrasing, opens up into more of a rock tune at 3 min mark. **11) Nice melody via finger-picked acoustic guitar, lowkey, stripped down sound 12) Starts quiet with acoustic guitars, builds to more orchestral sound 13) 7 min track, mellow for the most part. song switches gears at about 4 min mark 14) Reprise of Track 1 in a Stripped down classical style | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Oh No | 8. | Not A Robot, But A Ghost | |||
| 2. | Masterswarm | 9. | Unfolding Fans | |||
| 3. | Fitz And The Dizzyspells | 10. | Anonanimal | |||
| 4. | Effigy | 11. | Natural Disaster | |||
| 5. | Tenuousness | 12. | The Privateers | |||
| 6. | Nomenclature | 13. | Souverian | |||
| 7. | Ouo | 14. | On Ho |