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000-andrew_bird-are_you_serious-(deluxe_edition)-2cd-2016.nfo
Artist: Andrew Bird
Album: Are You Serious
Bitrate: 230kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Loma Vista
Genre: Indie
Size: 88.10 megs
PlayTime: 0h 50min 09sec total
Rip Date: 2016-04-09
Store Date: 2016-04-01
Track List: Disc #1/2
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01. Capsized 3:41
02. Roma Fade 4:03
03. Truth Lies Low 5:28
04. Puma 3:31
05. Chemical Switches 3:23
06. Left-Handed Kisses 3:14
07. Are You Serious 3:39
08. Saints Preservus 3:48
09. The New Saint Jude 4:10
10. Valleys Of The Young 5:33
11. Bellevue 2:04
Track List: Disc #2/2
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01. Shoulder Mountain 3:33
02. Pulaski 4:02
Release Notes:
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Marriage, fatherhood, and California are on the mind of Andrew Bird, whose tenth
LP, Are You Serious, offers a rare glimpse into the enigmatic artist's personal
life. Prior to this release, Bird's vast and perpetually inventive body of work
has generally eschewed confessional songwriter fare, opting instead for the
clever wordplay of a worldly observer who sets the scene but rarely lives in it.
A lifelong troubadour whose wandering ways have seemingly found some respite as
a Los Angeles family man, the native Chicagoan cracks open the door and reveals
himself in a way that manages to strike an elegant balance with his more cryptic
tendencies. One of the most dramatic of these revelations is "Valley of the
Young," a track whose sweeping rock crescendos punctuate its
coming-of-middle-age take on becoming a parent "where your friends will become
strange to you, just as you will become strange to them." The lovely "Bellevue"
offers a heartfelt paean to his wife as he sings "Now I found someone who can
slake my thirst in a land beset by drought" while on the title cut, Bird takes
aim at his own verbosity, wryly crooning "Used to be so willfully obtuse, or is
the word abstruse? Semantics like a noose, get out your dictionaries." Still,
this subtle shift inward hasn't dampened his poetic flair and musically he
manages to distill his creative hallmarks into a set that beautifully melds the
stripped down tone of later works like 2012's Break It Yourself with the lushly
appointed folk-pop orchestrations of his mid-2000s output. Reuniting with
producer Tony Berg, who helmed his 2005 tour de force The Mysterious Production
of Eggs, Bird is also joined by multi-instrumentalist Blake Mills and L.A.
favorite Fiona Apple, who duets with him on the quirky acoustic "Left Hand
Kisses." The veteran presence of keyboardist Patrick Warren (Michael Penn, Aimee
Mann) and legendary mixing engineer Tchad Blake (Los Lobos, Richard Thompson)
also lend a bit of West Coast polish to the proceedings. Soulful offerings like
"Capsized" and "Truth Lies Low" color the record's first half while the strange,
dub-flavored pop of "Puma" makes for one of his catchiest tracks in years. The
eerie magic of "Saints Preservus" into the sunny "The New Saint Jude" sets off a
marvelous four-song run that closes out what is some of Andrew Bird's best work
in nearly a decade.
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