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Universal acclaim- based on 47 Ratings
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Positive: 44 out of 47
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Mixed: 2 out of 47
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Negative: 1 out of 47
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Noble BeastYour Score0 out of 10User ScoreUniversal acclaim- based on 47 Ratings
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ZDWFeb 11, 2009My God, the whistling. Never have I heard so much earnest whistling. Bird is clearly a talented musician, and it's a decent-sounding album. But it's just too precious. The songs are so meticulously constructed that the outcome is prosaic and, frankly, boring.
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Some songs are all middle, stuck on what might be mere bridges by, say, Rufus Wainwright or Paul Simon. Yet Bird’s open-field poetics do let a wider world creep in, from the corruption of ecosystems to the isolation that can afflict a touring musician or a declining leader alike.
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Noble Beast veers off into a cheerily nonspecific world of jangly guitars and meandering melodies that evoke everyone from Okkervil River to Radiohead without ever making an impact of their own.
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With his SAT-acing vocabulary, Bird still rocks some of the best rhymes in the game, cobbling together his own foreign language from arcane terms.