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Released in 2007, Armchair Apocrypha proved that hyper-literate singer/songwriter, genre-bending violin player, and peerless whistler Andrew Bird had found the perfect middle ground between his increasingly austere solo sets and the full-band grandeur of his days with the Bowl of Fire, a strategy he repeats with similar results on Noble Beast, his fifth full-length solo offering and second collection for the Mississippi-based Fat Possum label. Bird, a classically trained violinist since the age of four, has skillfully integrated nearly everything with strings on it into his repertoire since his conversion from the Weill and Brecht-heavy days of Music of Hair, Thrills, and Oh! The Grandeur to the semi-mainstream indie pop of The Swimming Hour, but it's his seemingly limitless capacity for manipulation of the violin that dominates Noble Beast. Opening cut 'Oh No,' a track that Bird began releasing sketches of months before the album's street date, may be his most successful foray into the murky world of the potentially commercial pop song yet, boasting a chorus that points directly at the Shins while maintaining the artistic integrity of the loop-happy, meticulous craftsman who fans have been watching evolve since 2003's Weather Systems. What follows is a typically eclectic batch of material that reflect Bird's own musical time line. Tracks like 'Masterswarm' and 'Not a Robot, But a Ghost' are proof positive that he hasn't completely abandoned his swing jazz roots, 'Fitz and the Dizzyspells' could very well provide audiences with their first opportunity to 'bust a move' at a show, while 'Nomenclature's easy country-folk front half dissolves into a rear end that wouldn't seem out of place on a late-'90s Radiohead album. Throughout it all Bird rhymes -- sometimes to a fault -- like a history or biology professor ('From proto-Sanskrit Minoans to porto-centric Lisboans'), rendering many of the songs clever as opposed to emotionally resonant, but whatever romance he lacks in the textual medium he more than makes up for in melody. [The deluxe version of the album includes an impressive bonus disc of instrumental works, cleverly titled Useless Creatures, which features collaborations with Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche and jazz bassist Todd Sickafoose.]
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Noble Beast
Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 20, 2009
GenreBaroque pop
Length54:17
LabelFat Possum(US)
Bella Union(UK)
Andrew Bird chronology
Soldier On EP
(2007)		Noble Beast
(2009)		Fingerlings 4
(2010)

Noble Beast is American singer-songwriter Andrew Bird's fifth solo studio album released on January 20, 2009.[1] Two songs from this album were previewed on his webpage, 'Oh No' and 'Carrion Suite', while the entire album was made available by NPR[2] as a streaming feed. Noble Beast was made available as a standard CD release, a special limited-edition deluxe two-CD package and a double-LP package.

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The track 'Tenuousness' appears in the closing credits for the 2011 movie Crazy, Stupid, Love.

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Reception[edit]

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic79/100[3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
The A.V. Club(B+)[5]
Drowned in Sound(9/10)[6]
The Guardian[7]
LA Times[8]
Paste(6.7/10)[9]
Tiny Mix Tapes[10]
Pitchfork Media(7.5/10)[11]
Rolling Stone[12]
The Skinny[13]
Spin(7/10)[14]
Uncut[15]

The album received a Metacritic score of 79 out of 100 based on 29 reviews, indicating generally favorable reviews.[3]

The album debuted on the Billboard 200 chart at No. 12, and No. 3 on the Top Rock Albums Albums chart,[16] selling 26,000 copies in the first week.[17] The album has sold 150,000 copies in the United States as of December 2011.[18]

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Track listing[edit]

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All tracks written by Andrew Bird, except where noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1.'Oh No'4:20
2.'Masterswarm'6:35
3.'Fitz and the Dizzyspells'3:36
4.'Effigy'5:06
5.'Tenuousness'3:51
6.'Nomenclature'2:54
7.'Ouo'0:20
8.'Not a Robot, but a Ghost'Bird, Martin Dosh5:37
9.'Unfolding Fans'Bird, Jeremy Ylvisaker0:57
10.'Anonanimal'4:47
11.'Natural Disaster'4:18
12.'The Privateers'3:24
13.'Souverian'7:18
14.'On Ho!'1:08
Bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
15.'Section 8 City' (iTunes only bonus track)7:41
16.'10-you-us' (iTunes pre-order only bonus track)
17.'Take Courage' (eMusic only bonus track)6:51

Other appearances[edit]

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  • 'Not a Robot, But a Ghost' samples from the song 'First Impossible,' which appears on Dosh's album, Wolves and Wishes
  • 'The Privateers' uses the same lyrics from 'The Confession,' a song appearing on Oh! The Grandeur by Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire

Andrew Bird Noble Beast Lyrics

  • A different version of 'Section 8 City' appears on Fingerlings 4
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Useless Creatures (Deluxe edition bonus disc)[edit]

Deluxe Edition album art, to be used for Noble Beast/Useless Creatures 2-CD set

The limited edition of Noble Beast shipped with a companion disc of instrumental songs, entitled Useless Creatures.[19] This collection was made available on Bird's website in early January, before the album's release. Noble Beast / Useless Creatures was deleted after one initial run, both in the US and the UK, exclusively.

No.TitleLength
1.'Master Sigh'2:17
2.'You Woke Me Up!'7:24
3.'Nyatiti'4:01
4.'The Barn Tapes'10:12
5.'Carrion Suite'9:39
6.'Spinney'0:45
7.'Dissent'3:54
8.'Hot Math'7:18
9.'Sigh Master'5:32

Personnel[edit]

  • Andrew Bird - violin, vocals, whistling, guitar
  • Martin Dosh - percussion, looping, keys
  • Jeremy Ylvislaker - guitar, bass, organ, shortwave
  • Kelly Hogan - background vocals
  • Mike Lewis - clarinet
  • Todd Sickafoose - double bass
  • Ben Martin - cardboard box drums
  • Tony Crow - juno

Charts[edit]

Chart (2009)Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[20]77
French Albums (SNEP)[21]62
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[22]64
US Billboard 200[23]12
US Digital Albums (Billboard)[24]2
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[25]1
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[26]3
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard)[27]2

References[edit]

  1. ^Paul Thompson, 'Andrew Bird to Unleash Noble Beast on New Album'Archived October 7, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, pitchforkmedia.com, October 3, 2008.
  2. ^'Exclusive First Listen: Andrew Bird's 'Noble Beast''.
  3. ^ ab'Noble Beast by Andrew Bird'. Metacritic.
  4. ^https://www.allmusic.com/album/r1468944/review
  5. ^'Andrew Bird: Noble Beast'. AV Club. 27 January 2009.
  6. ^Skinner, James (2009-02-02). 'Andrew Bird - Noble Beast'. Drowned in Sound. Retrieved August 2, 2011.
  7. ^Costa, Maddy (30 January 2009). 'Andrew Bird - Noble Beast'. The Guardian. London: Guardian Media Group. Retrieved August 2, 2011.
  8. ^Brown, August (January 20, 2009). 'Album review: Andrew Bird's 'Noble Beast''. Los Angeles Times.
  9. ^'Andrew Bird: Noble Beast'. Past Magazine.
  10. ^'Music Review: Andrew Bird - Noble Beast'.
  11. ^Tangari, Joe (January 22, 2009). 'Andrew Bird - Noble Beast'. Pitchfork.
  12. ^Hermes, Will (January 20, 2009). 'Album Reviews'. Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on January 23, 2009.
  13. ^Watson, Gillian. 'Andrew Bird - Noble Beast'. The Skinny.
  14. ^Suarez, Jessica (27 December 2008). 'Andrew Bird, 'Noble Beast' (Fat Possum)'. SPIN.
  15. ^McKay, Alastair. 'Album Review: Andrew Bird - Noble Beast'. Uncut. Archived from the original on December 6, 2010.
  16. ^'Top Rock Albums'. Billboard. February 7, 2009.
  17. ^Caulfield, Keith (March 14, 2012). 'Bruce Springsteen Squeaks By Adele, Earns Tenth No. 1 Album'. Billboard.
  18. ^'ANDREW BIRD to release 'Break It Yourself' in March 2012'. Bella Union. December 8, 2011.
  19. ^'Andrew Bird new album release moved up'. NME. 26 November 2008.
  20. ^'Ultratop.be – Andrew Bird – Noble Beast' (in Dutch). Hung Medien.
  21. ^'Lescharts.com – Andrew Bird – Noble Beast'. Hung Medien.
  22. ^'Dutchcharts.nl – Andrew Bird – Noble Beast' (in Dutch). Hung Medien.
  23. ^'Andrew Bird Chart History (Billboard 200)'. Billboard.
  24. ^'Andrew Bird Chart History (Digital Albums)'. Billboard.
  25. ^'Andrew Bird Chart History (Independent Albums)'. Billboard.
  26. ^'Andrew Bird Chart History (Top Rock Albums)'. Billboard.
  27. ^'Andrew Bird Chart History (Top Tastemaker Albums)'. Billboard.
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