As soon as I sat down knowing that I intended to write about Andrew Bird, I smiled. The man has the kind of charisma that no one can touch, love him or leave him, his type of bravado can only be matched recently by the likes of Stephen Malkmus and/or Rufus Wainwright. You certainly don't need to have heard Bird's previous albums to fully appreciate Armchair Apocrypha, but as additions to your l...
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Alaska in Winter Dance Party in the Balkans (Regular Beat). Conceived during a lonely sojourn in a cabin for a month in Alaska one winter (hence the name of the project, ahem) by the apparently increasingly versatile Brandon Bethancourt, Dance Party in the Balkans (Regular Beat) depicts a very personal, mostly instrumental synth-meets-classical landscape that plays like the score to your life's...
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"Now that my bodies grown the lonely heart poetry / Droning in hearts becomes songs that all objects / Sing to each other like friends telling stories" (from "Ed Is A Portal") To compare Akron/Family to anything, you kind of have to compare them to everything. Either way, you're risking a deserved reviewer's remorse. While you can hear the classic rock influences so forcefully at moments, they ar
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