Break It Yourself

by Andrew Bird

Break It Yourself cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 6 March 2012
  • Label: Mom+Pop
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 59:56
  • Community rating: 3.71/5 from 8 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded live with his touring band in a barn in western Illinois, Andrew Bird's sixth solo album features a noticeably looser, more organic feel. While retaining his virtuosic whistling and violin loops, the record emphasizes intricate, melodic indie-folk and deeply poetic songwriting.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, melodic, strings, vocal, literary, male-vocals, experimental, chamber

Tracklist

  1. Desperation Breeds … (5:29)
  2. Polynation (0:45)
  3. Danse Caribe (5:19)
  4. Give It Away (4:28)
  5. Eyeoneye (4:03)
  6. Lazy Projector (4:59)
  7. Near Death Experience Experience (4:29)
  8. Behind the Barn (1:02)
  9. Lusitania (4:03)
  10. Orpheo Looks Back (4:53)
  11. Sifters (4:11)
  12. Fatal Shore (5:01)
  13. Hole in the Ocean Floor (8:16)
  14. Belles (2:53)

Credits

  • Michael Lewis - bass, tenor saxophone, backing vocals
  • Damon Locks - cover, typography [titles]
  • Martin Dosh - drums
  • Jeremy Ylvisaker - guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
  • Jay Ryan - illustration
  • Wendy Lewis - other [cooking & moral support]
  • Sharon Lanza - songwriter
  • Simone White - harmony vocals
  • Andrew Bird - Primary Artist
  • JT Bates - Drums
  • Nora O'Connor - Harmony Vocals
  • Annie Clark - Vocals

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