
É perfeitamente possível apenas ouvir "Noble Beast", o quinto álbum da carreira solo de Andrew Bird , e gostar do disco. É bom de escutar, é mais suave e sutil do que o anterior, o ótimo "Armchair Apocrypha" (2007). Mas a audição fica mais interessante se houver atenção a algumas coisas. Bird passa boa parte de seu tempo em uma fazenda no oeste do estado americano do Illinois . Começou a aprender música aos 4 anos de idade pelo método Suzuki , uma orientação completamente subjetiva e intuitiva. Mais tarde, se formou em música. E, [...]
Andrew Bird has been doing his thing since 1996. Thats 13 years on the grind. I was in 7th grade riding a Diamond Back with pegs and rocking a bowl cut back then…But seriously, Bird's latest album, Noble Beast, is a perfect Sunday morning soundtrack. Full disclosure: I am obsessed with music featuring violins and this guy plays a mean one in all sorts of funky ways. So cop it, and post up with some serious folk-rock and a cup of coffee this Sunday morning to ease away Saturday's [...]

'Noble Beast' is the fifth solo album by multi-instrumentalist (and expert whistler) Andrew Bird . Musical maturity is apparent with Bird's songs walking the line between expert craftsmanship and innocent playfulness and experimentation. Traditional influences of folk, blues and baroque grapple with a penchant for electronic techniques and repetition, culminating in confident and bold masterpieces that stand out from otherwise standand singer-songwriter fair. Coupled with the limited edition version of the album is the all instrumental 'Usless Creatures', which further explores Bird's sonic experiments over nine tracks. Buy at Amazon .