Blog: taking tiger mountain

As the pastoral album cover hints, Noble Beast is a different kind of Andrew Bird. It's grounded in a kind of naturalistic realism, a smaller album overall. While not a bad thing, but as it's a comedown from the dark grandeur of Armchair Apocrapha , there's definitely a period of listener adjustment that has to happen. Most every moment of Noble Beast is fraught with restraint, lacking the soaring bombast that permeated both its predecessor and ...And The Mysterious Production of Eggs . Many of the tracks on Noble Beast [...]