00-andrew_bird-break_it_yourself-2012.nfo
Artist: Andrew Bird
Album: Break It Yourself
Bitrate: 210kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Bella Union
Genre: Indie
Size: 97.57 megs
PlayTime: 1h 00min 14sec total
Rip Date: 2012-03-03
Store Date: 2012-03-02
Track List:
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01. Desperation Breeds? 5:30
02. Polynation 0:45
03. Danse Carribe 5:19
04. Give It Away 4:31
05. Eyeoneye 4:06
06. Lazy Projector 4:59
07. Near Death Experience 4:29
Experience
08. Things Behind The Barn 1:04
09. Lusitania 4:03
10. Orpheo Looks Back 4:55
11. Sifters 4:12
12. Fatal Shore 5:05
13. Hole In The Ocean Floor 8:17
14. Belles 2:59
Release Notes:
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Andrew Bird's 2009 album Noble Beast felt like a career best, yet its follow-up
is even better. Where Noble Beast examined the earth, Break It Yourself is an
album of the sea, of shifting sands and surging waves, sparkling spray and soft,
contemplative calm. You're constantly aware of the luxuriant spaciousness of the
music, but particularly in the dramatic silences of Sifters, the relaxed pacing
of Hole in the Ocean Floor and the slow tides of Lazy Projector. When the sound
begins to soar in Desperation Breeds and Lusitania, the effect is one of heady
rapture, while the dive into powerpop in Eyeoneye is absolutely exhilarating.
More attractive still is the new directness of Bird's lyrics: his duets with
Annie Clark of St Vincent have the emotional resonance of old-fashioned country,
and lines such as "We'll dance like cancer survivors, like we're grateful simply
to be alive" are shiveringly affecting. It's the perfect album: tender without
being sentimental, experimental yet accessible, utterly unique to its maker.
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