
Is Andrew Bird the future of music? Quite frankly... No. Some may reply to this that quality is more important than "being the next big thing", and I would agree with them, but the simple fact surrounding "Noble Beast", due to be released January 20th, is that it is painfully mundane and somewhat reticent; it would seem that Andrew Bird, no doubt an exceptionally skilled musician and multi-instrumentalist, has fallen into a comfortable rut of songwriting that is likely to placate his hard-core fan bases' need for another album brimming with shimmering folk rock, but unlikely to excite anybody who [...]