Break It Yourself by Andrew Bird NEUF 2024

Tracks:
Desperation Breeds
Polynation
Danse Caribe
Give It Away
Eyeoneye
Lazy Projector
Near Death Experience Experience
Things Behind the Barn
Lusitania
Orpheo Looks Back
Sifters
Fatal Shore
Hole in the Ocean Floor
Belles

Performer Notes:

• Crafty violinist, minutia-loving songwriter, and peerless whistler Andrew Birds highly anticipated sixth studio album, Break It Yourself, is his first collection of new songs since 2009s Noble Beast.

Professional Reviews: Rolling Stone (p.64) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Bird gets direct, even confrontational. Desperation Breeds... sets the tone, opening the record with a dark blast of piano-guitar discord."

Magnet (p.52) - "[A] collection of tracks that feels more raw, more freewheeling and slightly riskier....He creates textures, punctured by emotional and sonic peaks and valleys."

Uncut (magazine) (p.82) - "[T]he LPs two highlights hit a perfectly judged pitch of heartbreak: Lusitania, which tramps the dream prairies of early Grant Lee Buffalo, and best of all, Sifters, a lovely lullaby of departure..."

Format: CD (1 Disc)

Country: USA

Release Date: 5 March, 2012

Label: Bella Union