New Andrew Bird Tracks!

So Mr. Bird's albums often display the lovely artwork of Jay Ryan. But who know that Jay Ryan also had a band called Dianogah??? I sure didn't.

I also didn't know that Dianogah and Andrew Bird would be running over to Daytrotter.com for a lovely live session. Wowzers people!

Andrew and quite a different backing crew play five studio sessions — "Fiery Crash" and "Plasticities" from Armchair Apocrypha, "Lull" from Weather Systems, "A Breaks B" from a forthcoming Dianogah album and "The Giant of Illinois" a Handsome Family cover AB's been playing at live shows as of late.

The sound quality on these tracks is just beautiful, and "Lull" glimmers along BEAUTIFULLY in much the same way it did on the album. In the notes on the sessions, Bird talks about revisiting old material and trying to bring it back to how it sounded originally. For a guy who's typically very forward thinking, this is unusual, but I'm certainly not complaining about the results. "Lull" is just stunning, and the bass is priceless.

Get over there and listen to it yo!