Armchair Apocrypha

Chicago violinist and songwriter follows his breakthrough album, The Mysterious Production of Eggs, by adding more guitars and deeper textures to his production, tricks he's been employing live for the past couple of years. -Joe Tangari Pitchfork.com 7.7/10

Chicago violinist and songwriter follows his breakthrough album, The Mysterious Production of Eggs, by adding more guitars and deeper textures to his production, tricks he's been employing live for the past couple of years.

There's an obvious passion behind Andrew Bird's Armchair Apocrypha, but the songs themselves could come from a post-passionate universe, a place where rueful reflection has become the baseline emotion. Bird—who created Armchair in close collaboration with experimental electronic musician Martin Dosh—is an inventive…

With Armchair Apocrypha, Andrew Bird takes another developmental departure from his previous works, though not nearly in as drastic a fashion as his previous album-to-album jumps in style.

The album’s songs might be apocryphal, but they’re certainly relevant to what’s happening in the world outside.

Great albums tend to suggest their ideal listening environment: the club, the car, headphones, stereo cranked to 11, winter, summer, etc.

Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha review: Intricately laced dream pop with sensible melodies but even better subtle countermelodies and inflections.