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New Andrew Bird - "Oh No"

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If you recall, Owen Pallett told us Andrew Bird handled the whistling in the St. Kitts Orchestra on his forthcoming Plays To Please EP. "Oh No" offers some whistling, too, but this time Andrew's front and center. Not too long ago we heard some live Bird songs, where we mentioned "Oh No," but this is the first Noble Beat studio work we've captured. The song mixes classy violin, whistling, guitar accents, and harmonies with lyrics about calculated blows to the head and harmless sociopaths.


(Via P4K)

This is what it looks like when Andrew does it live, while wearing the same getup he has on in the above picture.

Noble Beast is out in January on Fat Possum.

[Photo by Cameron Wittig]

Posted at 5:40 PM by brandon
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This song is awesome. Much better than the stuff on his last album. I thought the mysterious production of eggs was much better.

Check out my site, Pigeons and Planes, at pigeonsandplanes.blogspot.com. It's got stuff like this on it as well as underground hip hop, indie rock, and stuff. I just started it today so check it out, and become a fan to make me look cooler.

Posted by: Confusion at 10/03/08 6:01 PM | Reply
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Shame on them

Fall off the stage + playback = a bloc party concert live on MTV´s VMA Brazil:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55deELVe9SQ

Posted by: teco apple at 10/03/08 8:09 PM | Reply
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andrew birds and sociopaths?
did life just get that much better? :D

Posted by: evabungle profile link at 10/04/08 2:29 AM | Reply
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this song is good, not his best, but i'll take it. he has a good feel with the violin

Posted by: Heytherr profile link at 10/04/08 12:18 PM | Reply
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In case you didn't know, this is a song that Andrew has been blogging about for a while in the New York Times as he was making it:

http://measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/words-will-tell/

Posted by: Grand at 10/04/08 9:31 PM | Reply
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shut up

Posted by: jordan at 10/29/08 12:25 AM | Reply
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