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Album Review

Andrew Bird
Armchair Apocrypha Fargo

Article written by Ged M - May 21, 2007

Armchair Apocrypha is Andrew Bird�s tenth album (seven studio, three live) and perhaps his most accessible. �The Mysterious Production of Eggs� in 2005 was the breakthrough; the new record takes all the features that made that one so memorable � virtuoso violin playing, incredible whistling, jazz-inflected pop and inspired lyricism � and serves them up in an even more idiosyncratic mix. The record has huge swings from �Plasticities�, one of the catchiest songs he�s written, to the sweep of strings on �The Supine� or the glitchy electronic shuffle of �Simple X�. Lyrically, it goes from a superstitious fear of air travel (�Fiery Crash�) to the fall of ancient empires in Asia (�Scythian Empires�), with its nod to the fall of modern ones: �their Halliburton attach� cases are useless�. �Darkmatter� adds humour in its tale of life lived like a game of Operation while �Armchairs� is the Romantic Poets set to violins and piano. Aside from Joanna Newsom, it�s on an Andrew Bird album alone that you encounter made up words like �spork� and �scrumbled�, or the use of �settee� in song. And like Joanna, this is quirky but captivating pop music. I recommend you listen to the birdsong.

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