Bird: In my first couple records, I would throw everything and the kitchen sink into a song just 'cause I didn't know. Since 1996, he has released 15 studio albums, as well as several live albums and EPs, spanning various genres including swing music, indie rock, and folk music.

Music has been Bird's constant companion for as long as he can remember. The question remains, is the target put there by a fickle God, a scorned lover, an arrogant critic or by himself? When one’s grandparents would have been going off to war or having their first children in their early twenties, emergent adults would be debating which loft in which urban gentrifying neighborhood to move into and what was for brunch on some random but repeatable Thursday. Cornel West — one of the last public theologians in the prophetic tradition — is known for delineating the difference between hope and optimism. We Insist: A Timeline Of Protest Music In 2020, First Listen: Andrew Bird, 'Break It Yourself', New Music From Andrew Bird, Julianna Barwick And More.

And then with reasons maybe he can’t quite explain, he cries out about “holy Ghost religion” and Jesus. Andrew Bird (born July 11, 1973) is an American musician. I thought that's something I can build something around. It was this one long bout of New York City hospitals — like three or four years of triage. His latest album is called Break It Yourself. Truth lying low, holy ghost religion, giving up hope… it’s all in Bird’s best offering since Armchair Apocrypha. Andrew Wegman Bird (born July 11, 1973) is an American indie rock multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter. That always ends up being more compelling and interesting than dark on dark or light on light. "That's given me enormous flexibility stylistically. Bird later released the studio albums Are You Serious (2016) and My Finest Work Yet (2019).

AJC: Are you training it? Andrew Bird may have begun his career as an old-time jazz violinist, but his musical stylings are no longer quite so easily pinned down. It was just me and the countryside making music all day long and experimenting. And they are a little bit crazy. Bird: I think I could probably say that it has to do with finding my family, you know? This is a man who has opened up a vein and his heart to detail incredibly intimate concerns — sickness, childbearing and ordinary trials — as an invitation for us to examine our own lives. I had a restless ear, and I was just like, here, just for the heck of it I'm gonna play a little improvisation on like a Bach partita in the middle of a song. The song fast forwards toward more significant later-life concerns, envisioning the dread of rushing to a hospital as a 60-something father to the bedside of a child who has overdosed on pills. And that’s the conviction that both West and Bird share — despite what might seem to be the totality of darkness in the human experience there is a need for a hope beyond hope in order to truly live. I could see a storm come through the valley, pass overhead, rain on me, and then move on. He was born in Lake Bluff, … It’s a holy ghost, holy ghost religionIt’s a holy ghost religion Jesus gonna make my…, “Capsized” opens with an aggressiveness not typically known in Andrew Bird’s work: anthemic opening power chords partnered with a tight bass line and drum beat borrowed from Bill Withers Live at Carnegie Hall. AJC: You've now allowed yourself to be more personal in the last five years? He knows how to dive into solitude without drowning in it, and he understands that music can make for excellent company. Then we had to evacuate for Hurricane Sandy. When I hear Bird singing about giving up hope and feeling so much better on “St.

“Bellevue Bridge Club” took years to craft, and in the final version, only a single line from the first draft survives. I don’t believe that. “Cracking Codes” offers relief from the heavier subject matter that makes up the bulk of Bird's 2019 album, boldly titled My Finest Work Yet. Bird: Every time I start to get really dark, I feel a need to flip it, to twist it around and either make fun of myself for having that inclination or just play with the lyrics versus the music. Then there's this other voice that says "I'm gonna shake you ‘till it wakes you." Back in the 1990s, psychologist Jeffrey Jensen Arnett interviewed hundreds of young people, asking them what they wanted out of life. I have a friend who has been going through a rough patch with very significant challenges — and yet, he has the self-reflective courage to say that if he woke up in a Syrian refugee camp, trading lives with another, he would fight to claim back his old problems. It's sophisticated pairing of bleak cultural commentary and stark vulnerability has struck a nerve with critics and fans alike. I don't have those impulses anymore. It's just like an escape valve for ideas, and if I'm not talking or sleeping or eating I'm pretty much whistling. Andrew Bird was 4 when he picked up his first instrument. Bird married his partner, the dancer and fashion designer Katherine Tsina in 2010. (Andrew Bird singing “Bellevue Bridge Club”), And I will hold you hostage Make you part of my conspiracy You will be witness to carnage You know there's no you without me, I'm gonna shake you 'Til it wakes you From your waking dreams Show you affecting scenes Of life beyond your front door I will exploit you And conscript you For my narrative schemes Show you distressing scenes, I'm gonna drag you from your bed onto your floor By any means necessary By any means necessary By any means necessary I'm gonna dig up what you buried, yeah By any means necessary, There you go again Finding brilliant ways to make things harder Are we smarter alone or in this endless Stockholm syndrome Here's what is known We're gonna break this two-way mirror, I'm gonna shake you, break you By any means necessary By any means necessary By any means ('Til some day) Yeah some sweet some sweet day, We will be playing bridge on the psych ward With Barbara, Gene, and Sue We will be playing bridge On the psych ward With Arthur, Jane, and Lou And if you ever start to get bored You know there's no one to blame but you And I will hold you hostage Make you part of my conspiracy You will bear witness to carnage You know there's no you without me. Bird was immersed in music from early childhood.

It sounds to me like the inner critic that many of us have who's really rude and you would never be friends with that person. Their son Sam came a year later. And that sense of time, you know, I think started to affect the music I was making. What thrills me is just finding that sweet spot from an emotional moment in a song. Like, I'll underscore something very dark with something very uplifting. So here’s a mighty revelationThat’s sure to cure what ails yaThat everyone’s just a disappointmentAnd everyone’s a failure, And this we shall celebrateIn our finest regaliaLike a choir of shining angelsA congregation of Mahalia’s. "The fact that I wasn't expected to read music at all and was absorbing everything by ear ... it had a huge affect on the kind of musician that I became," says Bird. I just wondered, maybe now that I know it is an internal conversation, is that the guy who's talking to you a lot of the time? I pastor a church in the capital of the Valleys of the Young and we might as well sing this song during our confessional prayer time. That's why most of the time Andrew Bird is whistling. Andrew Bird will headline NPR Music's SXSW showcase. His latest album is called Break It Yourself.

He sings, whistles, writes lyrics, composes film scores and creates songs that can sometimes hover between pop and ethereal music. Andrew Bird was 4 when he picked up his first instrument. It’s hard to separate the criticisms we hear internally from the perceived external threats. He hoped the isolation would be revelatory. Andrew Bird may have begun his career as an old-time jazz violinist, but his musical stylings are no longer quite so easily pinned down.

I'm gonna shake you." In the meantime, he landed a recording contract of his own. Optimism is a notion that there’s sufficient evidence that would allow us to infer that if we keep doing what we’re doing, things will get better.

And while Bird may be haunted by loneliness and other existential dramas, he threads it with his characteristic whimsy. It sounds like not a healthy relationship. It’s a humid and cloudy vibe, the kind of morning after a night fueled with too many gin and tonics, desperation and panic attacks. She’s OK, but you know how just being pregnant can feel like a normal, natural thing that human beings do but also this scary, traumatic thing?

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