Thursday, December 8, 2016

Jeff's Top 10 of 2016 - #7: Andrew Bird - Are You Serious


Andrew Bird's Are You Serious is my #7 album this year. I wasn't expecting this to be my favorite Andrew Bird album, but I wasn't expecting his previous album to be my favorite before that, either.

Andrew Bird holds a weird spot for me personally, as he's the better version of a lot of things I already love. This album hit me first as feeling a little more stripped down and different than his past efforts, but a few listens got me right in line with why I enjoy what he does. Yeah, he whistles. Yeah, there's a good amount of violin. But the songs are just so catchy, and they get jammed into your brain and don't let go whether you want them to or not. I hear my wife humming the title track in the kitchen constantly even when she hasn't heard the song in a while.

I still maintain that Bird's "worst" album was also his breakthrough, Armchair Apocrypha. Where this will sit in Bird's lineup of music over all these years remains to be seen, but this might be my favorite effort of his so far. Full of earworms, just a solid listen that you should give a good listen.

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