Noble Beast is just amazing...

There's always been something about Andrew Bird's music that has attracted oddballs. Whether it's the idiosyncratic curiosities that Bird weaves so deliciously between the layers of each of his songs (handclaps, whistles, loops, samples, glock et al) or simply because he chooses to sing from a perspective that sits him right on the cusp of mainstream pop. culture, there's long since been an innate allure to Bird's music for societies' freewheelers.

'Noble Beast' will not disappoint this feverishly-committed community. It will, however, open Andrew Bird up to a whole new audience; a mainstream, six-albums-a-year, 2.4 kids, Ford Mondeo kinda audience. Because make no bones about it, this is one big, sweating, unashamed slab of intelligent, infectious and downright brilliant pop music. If 'Armchair Apocrypha' was Bird's coming of age LP then 'Noble Beast' is his breakthrough. It really is that simple.

As with many of Bird's compositions, the muse for each of the songs on 'Noble Beast' remains unremarkably bog-standard. Death, love, life and paranoia are...

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