We’ve already discussed Thom Yorke, Daniel Rossen and the Swedish-import-come-New-Orleans-phenom Theresa Andersson. But I was remiss in omitting Andrew Bird from that post. I saw Bird open for The Decemberists/LA Phil show last year (two years ago?) at the Hollywood Bowl and was blown away by what I considered to be a no-name at the time. After all, Band of Horses was getting big off “The Funeral” and they opened before Bird, which I didn’t understand… At least, not until he launched into the looping wonderment of “Imitosis”.
He’s a musician’s musician. Multi-instrumental, with a child-prodigy background, who is creating completely original and unheard sounds. If he and Feist got married and had babies, the babies would form a band that surpassed the ubiquitously accepted preeminence of the Beatles…
Both his stage presence and the eccentric set behind him remind me of David Byrne and a little Naïve Melody… (Not sure there’s much of a musical connection, but maybe)
I mean, at this EXACT moment, I still like Andrew Bird’s last album “Armchair Apocrypha” (2007) more, but to be fair, that album was my introduction to him and “Noble Beast” is still just a baby on the scene, but tracks like “Not a Robot, But a Ghost,” “Souverian,” and this one are already rising incrementally in my iTunes list (when ordered by play count, descending)
