“I've been playing around with that before I started making records — the lightness and the dark. I think that dark on dark is kind of boring, but the juxtaposition is what we call melancholy. That's the basis of most music, really. I've always liked that contrast.”
—Andrew Bird interviewed on Weekend Edition SundayHole in the Ocean Floor
Andrew BirdThis song is absolutely beautiful.
Hole in the Ocean Floor - Andrew Bird
Lusitania
Andrew BirdLusitania - Andrew Bird feat. Annie Clark
“Go ahead, say something dumb boy, there’s no shame.”
Lusitania
Andrew BirdAndrew Bird | Lusitania (feat. Annie Clark)
go ahead, say something dumb, boy
there’s no shame
Orpheo Looks Back
Andrew BirdAndrew Bird - Orpheo Looks Back
Eyeoneye
Andrew BirdWowowowow haven’t listened to him in a while what is wrong with me.
Lusitania
Andrew Bird (ft. St. Vincent)“Lusitania” - Andrew Bird ft. St. Vincent
Lusitania
Andrew BirdAndrew Bird - ‘Lusitania’
Orpheo Looks Back
Andrew BirdAndrew Bird — “Orpheo Looks Back”
Lusitania
Andrew BirdLusitania - Andrew Bird feat. Annie Clark
Sifters
Andrew BirdAndrew Bird | Sifters
What if we hadn’t been born at the same time?
What if you were 75 and I were 9?
Would I come visit you?
Bring you cookies in an old folks home
Would you be there alone?
lusitania
andrew birda cover keira and i did of “lusitania” by andrew bird from his new album, break it yourself, which was released last week.
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i’ve been listening to this album a lot ever since getting my hands on it and i like it so much. i don’t think he’ll make a record that i enjoy more than armchair apocrypha but i do think that break it yourself beats out noble beast.
if you loosen liable lips
you keep sinking all my ships
oh, and you’re the one who sank my lusitania
but somehow it don’t register as pain at all
‘til it finds our crooked vein
it should help
oh, let’s not remember the nameoh, you made lines along your shore
oh, through my heart that ripped and tore
oh, we don’t study this war no moreso we let our backbones slip
‘til the arc spits from my fingertips
and we’ll become a hazard in the rain
boy, we’ll get charged out in the way
and there’s a 60-cycle hum
go ahead, say something dumb, boy there’s no shame
there’s no shame
go ahead, say something dumb, boy there’s no shameoh, you laid mines along your shore
oh, through my heart that ripped and tore
oh, we don’t study this war no more
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keira and i, we’ve been meaning to record something together for a while now. this was a lot of good fun. i love her voice so much. more than st. vincent’s. good, keira, gold star.
also, she’s in a band with two other good friends called caitlyn and alayna and they are called scrimshaw and the mariner. listen!
Sifters
Andrew BirdAndrew Bird - Sifters
What if we hadn’t been born at the same time?
What if you were seventy-five and I were nine?