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Over his twelve-year career, vaguely retro vagabond Andrew Bird has
been a hard guy to pin down, performing with everyone from Squirrel Nut
Zippers and Candi Staton to Ani DiFranco and My Morning Jacket. On his
seventh album, seemingly simple elements -- plucked violin, shuffling
snare drums, chiming guitars, plinky piano, his spooky croon and
magisterial whistle -- build into one heady, slippery whole. His lyrics mix the
everyday and the catastrophic, lulling you into a false sense of
security. On the opening track, "Fiery Crash," mundane airport imagery --
"Turnstiles on mezzanine/Jetways and Dramamine fiends" -- turns into
terror: "A fatal premonition/You know you got to envision/The fiery crash."
The effect can be both cozy and traumatic -- maybe Bird should have
called this "Armchair Apocalypse."
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Track List
- Fiery Crash
- Imitosis
- Plasticities
- Heretics
- Armchairs
- Darkmatter
- Simple X
- The Supine
- Cataracts
- Scythian Empires
- Spare-Ohs
- Yawny At The Apocalypse
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