Tune In Saturdays: Andrew Bird

This weeks tune in is the Jeff Buckley-esque Chicago native and violin virtuoso Andrew Bird. It's definitely still pop music for the most part, but flirts with folk, classical and jazz. It's beautiful at times, and frantic at others. Big highs and big lows, but it's all interesting as hell.

From Drowned in Sound:

"Bird sounds more classical than ever; not classical in a strict sense, but each pull on the violin is more pomp than punk. This pulling strategy has crafted a fine album, full of subtle, melodic masterpieces that, while not trenchantly classical, exude romance via musicianship embedded in the classical realm."

I know it sounds rather weird, but it's friggin' brilliant.

Andrew Bird - Heretic (mp3)

Below is a live from Bonnaroo recording of A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left.

Comments

[neilperkin]

Nice one Paul. Lovin' the download track.

[Lewis Green]

Thanks Paul. I am obsessed with hating Pop, so forgive me if I call this Rock. In my youth, John Cage and then Jon Luc Ponty changed Rock by adding violin.

[Megan]

Andrew Bird rules the school. I was afraid I wouldn't find Armchair Apocrypha as mad love-worthy as The Mysterious Production of Eggs, but thankfully those fears were unfounded. I still can't figure out why this guy isn't ridiculously huge.