Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs
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Artist: Andrew BirdEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-02-08
Music Label: Righteous Babe
Soundtracks:
- untitled
- Sovay
- A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left
- Fake Palindromes
- Measuring Cups
- Banking on a Myth
- Masterfade
- Opposite Day
- Skin Is, My
- The Naming of Things
- MX Missiles
- untitled
- Tables and Chairs
- The Happy Birthday Song
Music reviews of Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs
Music Review: bring on the snacks
Rating: 5 Stars
First off, there's no need for me to write a review b/c some woman named Erica from WA state did a review that's right on point, but I like the sound of my own voice, er, the sight of my own typing, so I'll add mine to the mix. I'd like to thank Sirius radio for introducing me to Andrew Bird - God knows he's too good to be played on commercial radio. My first impression of this CD was not good, I thought - does this dude sleep with a thesaurus under his cage-free, goose down pillow? who does he think he is with his $5.00 words? his lyrics are just a bit too precious, but then I listened to the music - over and over again (I can't stop listening to it) and I heard that goofy lyric about the snacks, and I thought - fantastic! I love snacks! this guy can't take himself TOO seriously, but his music is seriously great. All I can say is that his music is lovely, delicate, infinitely hummable and it grows on you like a soft, fuzzy moss. And even the a-bit-too-precious-lyrics gain appeal - thinking about getting licked by kittens is so so sweet. Listen to this 7 times and if it doesn't get under your skin, you can punch me in the stomach.
Description of Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs
Andrew Bird is a previously unimaginable combination of songwriter, violinist, guitarist, vocalist and whistler. His unfailingly unique and striking music has been dumbfounding us for years. Bird's first studio album in nearly two years, The Mysterious Production of Eggs, is his second on Righteous Babe Records. The album follows Weather Systems, his critically-acclaimed mini-LP, released in spring 2003.The recording sessions for Mysterious Production saw Bird scrap the album three times and travel between studios in Chicago, Los Angeles and his own home studio on a farm in Northern Illinois. The album took final shape with the production help of David Boucher, whose credits include Paul Westerberg, Lisa Loeb, and Randy Newman. Bird plays most of the instruments on Mysterious Production, and is joined by a handful of special guests complimenting his already lush sonic palette. The results are magnificent, a powerhouse of a record dealing with nothing less than the mysteries of childhood, creativity and modern science - epic in scope and minute in detail.
Equally impressive is Bird's solo live show at which, with the aid of a sampling pedal, the songwriter takes his often dense, orchestrated recordings and rewrites them anew each night, adding hypnotic layers of instruments to his vocals and other-worldly whistling - you have to see it to believe it.
His beginnings as a violinist long behind him, Chicago-born Andrew Bird has been sculpting ever more complex and convincing musical worlds since his first album in 1997. On his fifth release, Bird offers up no answers to the mysteries in the world around us, but does take on the thornier elements with poetic verve. The instrumentation is bracingly inventive, but never for mere shenanigans or showmanship. The songs are each a perfectly formed vignette. And he's a world class whistler; not the loud summoning blast, but the supple and nuanced vibrato-laced melodicism of a master. There is no shortage of utterly riveting songs here. They work their magic on their own believable terms, without a hint of cloying nostalgia or riff-fueled seduction. - David Greenberger
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