Andrew Bird's new album

More on Germany later, peeps!

Andrew Bird added another post to the New York Times’ blog Measure For Measure in which he wrote this:

The record I want to make here and now — the one I wish I could find in my local record store — is a gentle, lulling, polyrhythmic, minimalist yet warm tapestry of acoustic instruments. No solos, just interlocking parts. A little Steve Reich, but groovier. A little Ghanaian street music, but more arranged. Thick and creamy vocals like the Zombies’s Colin Blunstone. The bass warm and tubby like Studio One dub.

Words like those right there are why I always keep a spare pare of pants around, for the just in case moments where I get excited and crap myself. Heck, I have to avoid reading that paragraph up there just out of fear of aftershock self-craps.

He went on to explain that he's working with the same producer that hashed out Weather Systems back in 2003. That album was a superb accomplishment, even for Bird's standards. In that short 35 minutes he creates a slow-moving, pastoral, musical landscape that, being honest with myself, he has yet to surpass. Each subsequent album really took on very different atmospheres, but even at his very best he hasn't had as consistent a sound as he did on this one.

And just because Andrew Bird loves me (because what other explanation could there be?) he included a one-minute sample of the song "Oh No" that he's been working on in the studio.

I'm undecided on one matter though. Does this blog sate my appetite for a new album, or does it make the waiting for the new album (I'm guessing it will be out at the beginning of next year) all the more painful?