Artist Andrew Bird

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Andrew Bird

His classical training and considerable technical skills aside, Andrew Bird attacks his elaborately crafted pop collages with a puckish sense of experimentalism. Live, Bird creates unique sounds via his use of stomp-box samplers, which loop and layer pizzicato and bowed violin, guitar, and his own whistling into a lush sonic tapestry—although Bird played it somewhat safe with Noble Beast, a recent collection of pleasant indie-folk ballads that seem curiously reluctant to wander outside the lines for such a masterful scribbler. But as with anything Bird, there are still some surprises nested in there.

Updated 06/11/2009