If you recall, Owen Pallett told us Andrew Bird handled the whistling in the St. Kitts Orchestra on his forthcoming Plays To Please EP. “Oh No” offers some whistling, too, but this time Andrew’s front and center. Not too long ago we heard some live Bird songs, where we mentioned “Oh No,” but this is the first Noble Beat studio work we’ve captured. The song mixes classy violin, whistling, guitar accents, and harmonies with lyrics about calculated blows to the head and harmless sociopaths.
(Via P4K)
This is what it looks like when Andrew does it live, while wearing the same getup he has on in the above picture.
Noble Beast is out in January on Fat Possum.
[Photo by Cameron Wittig]
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This song is awesome. Much better than the stuff on his last album. I thought the mysterious production of eggs was much better.
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Shame on them
Fall off the stage + playback = a bloc party concert live on MTV´s VMA Brazil:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55deELVe9SQ
andrew birds and sociopaths?
did life just get that much better?
this song is good, not his best, but i’ll take it. he has a good feel with the violin
In case you didn’t know, this is a song that Andrew has been blogging about for a while in the New York Times as he was making it:
http://measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/words-will-tell/
shut up
I saw him play this at the Hiro in Manhattan and it was great! Nay sayers back off, Noble Beast is golden. Though I would say the best way to hear the Bird is live in concert. This is the video I took at the show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02eiukhtDN8