Andrew Bird’s long solo career has established him as a dependable singer-songwriter who consistently releases high-quality, idiosyncratic chamber-pop and indie folk-rock. It can be easy to forget, though, that he got his start in the mid-90s as a member of swing-revival act Squirrel Nut Zippers, and his early albums with solo project Bowl of Fire…
In the follow-up to his fine 2019 release, My Finest Work Yet, Andrew Bird continues to deliver smart, thoughtful music that displays his talented violin skills in catchy pop-oriented songs, most that defy simplistic genre categories. On that work, he seemed quite taken with the world of the “Olympians,” the way modern life seems to…
Andrew Bird, the singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, most often associated with his violin playing, has been plugging away producing smart, classically-influenced indie-rock (with the rare excursion into country) since first appearing on three albums with the Squirrel Nut Zippers in the mid-90’s. His first three albums as a bandleader arrived under the moniker, Andrew Bird’s Bowl…
