One could arguably describe Andrew Bird as the quietest big deal in the music business. His last album Noble Beast (2009) sold 150,000 copies in the US alone and debuted on the Billboard chart at #12. He also has cumulative album sales of well over half a million and is fast becoming somewhat of US TV veteran after appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. 

In the intervening three years since Noble Beast, Bird, a man who sometimes structures his live sets by selecting thematically linked songs, has continued the rigorous touring that has made him one of the hottest concert tickets around (and not just in the United States where he played to 50,000 people on his headline tour for Noble Beast – his show at London’s Barbican Centre sold out in a matter of days) He’s also settled down in New York and become a father, soundtracked the highly acclaimed movie Norman and contributed to the open ended reinterpretations of Congotronic favourites Tradi-Mods V Rockers.

Andrew Bird’s self-produced new album Break It Yourself was recorded to eight track at Bird’s barn in Western Illinois with a core group of drummer Martin Dosh, guitarist and keys man Jeremy Ylvisaker and Mike Lewis on tenor sax and bass.

Break It Yourself is released by Bella Union on Monday 5th March.

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