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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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Nov 28, 2013
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Jun 10, 2012This is undoubtedly one of the most crisp and original albums I've ever heard. He sings with volition and plays so sweetly. The lyrics are masterful and fun, with a lot to sink your teeth into. This album definitely takes you places.
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Feb 17, 2012
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Nov 3, 2010Such a beautiful album. Every song simply oozes beauty and charm. I love just playing this album from start to finish, it's one of those that you can just leave on and none of the songs are worthy of skipping.
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MattKSep 27, 2009Starts and ends extremely strongly -the first 6 tracks are excellent and then it starts to tail off until track 11 where everything starts to come back and finishes very well with track 13 and into 14. If it wasn't for the 4 or so tracks in the middle, I'd be giving this album a 10 easily.
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AlanOMar 15, 2009
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LW.Mar 13, 2009Deaf reviewers. This is tear-inducingly good in the right mood, and simply great in any mood.
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MarkSFeb 18, 2009Think of this listening experience sort of like picking up a National Geographic and looking at the photographs of strange life forms and unique looking individuals, and then realizing that if you read the articles deep thoughts become much clearer.
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JosephT.Feb 17, 2009Excellent way to spend a solitary winter's day. Bird really takes you on a journey. He uses "words" that aren't even words and, oh boy, is that fun to listen to him do. If you liked Joanna Newsom's album YS (2006) you will enjoy this folk-rock menagerie.
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JeremyFFeb 12, 2009As good as a the previous album although some songs should have been left out... Outstanding album!
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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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reFeb 8, 2009A great record. I'm confused by how mixed the reviews seem to be. Rock journalists have failed us again.
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alexc.Jan 29, 2009Sounds right, Feels right. Bird's latest is his greatest. I am not a musician, but in this layman's opinion, Beast's music is appetizingly complex.
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ChristopherJan 21, 2009Andrew Bird continues to impress me. His production is beautiful and lyricism is highly creative. With this album, he was able to take many of the great moments from both Mysterious Production of Eggs and Armchair Apocrypha and combine them into something really special. Best album of the year so far (yes, even better than Merriweather Post Pavilion).
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RorySJan 20, 2009I pretty much agree with the critics here. Nothing too special but there are a few really good songs on here. Definitely not his best, though.
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KevinZ.Jan 20, 2009
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jeffersontJan 20, 2009Incredible album. Stupid reviewers.
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Awards & Rankings
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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.