Armchair Apocrypha (studio album) by Andrew Bird
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Armchair Apocrypha is ranked 2nd best out of 23 albums by Andrew Bird on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Andrew Bird is Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production Of Eggs which is ranked number 1723 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 986.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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01/31/2024 19:42 | rafaelcalazans | 2,026 | 53/100 | |
11/09/2023 16:31 | Kali | 689 | 74/100 | |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.6/100, a mean average of 78.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.5.
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This is a thing of absolute beauty.It takes you on journey and let's you see glimpses of the world through the instrumentation. Considering that this album is about to turn 10 and Andrew is a violinist adding guitars into the mix, this record ages extraordinary well.
"Armchair Apocrypha" is an album full of sublime moments, fun rockers, meandering opuses, and the more than occasional use of high vocabulary and historical reference. While it may not tread as easily as "The Mysterious Production of Eggs", in many ways, this record is bolder, more challenging, and more rewarding. The acoustic underpinnings of "Eggs" is replaced with biting electric tone while the sometimes tepid and shambling drums/drum machines of "Eggs" a pleasantly lost to Bird's collaborator Martin Dosh who uses his percussive skills to breathe fresh live throughout Bird's style. The first half of the record is pure masterpiece with highlights "Plasticities", "Imitosis", and "Armchairs". And Although the second half slows down too much, the songs are pleasantly slow burning thanks to their lyrics and musical detail. This is all rounded out by "Spare-ohs" which is the perfect end-cap that flows into the instrumental outro "Yawny at the Apocalypse". Do listen. Do listen more than once.
The best document from a supremely unique talent. The violin, the whistling, the voice... nearly every track is sublime in its own way, culminating with the lovely "Spare-ohs".
This album is lyrically dense (in a great way). It addresses history, science, has a great instrumental piece at the end that solidifies this as a semi-spiritual experience. VERY GOOD ALBUM, instrumentation, whistling, so on, and so on
great album
This guy knows how to put an indie folk rock song together with many witty twists of phrase. Opener "fiery crash", one of the highlights on the album, is aptly apocryphal, stating "G force is twisting the faith with superstition / A fatal premonition / You know you've got to envision / The fiery crash" which is "just a formality". Delicate "imitosis" and its intricate plucking states "And despite what all his studies had shown / What was mistaken for closeness, was just a case of mitosis" where petri dish germs are swinging fists at the human race. The hits don't end -- a sole string intro to "plasticities" reveals "This isn't our song, this isn't even a musical / Think life is too long, to be a whale in a cubicle / Nails under your cuticle" where andrew pulls his version of new porn & multiple choruses. "heretics", "dark matter" and "scythian empires" are the other main highlights.
Really lovely music arrangements with the violins. Unfortunately, a lot of the time it sounds like Andrew is singing with his mouth closed and I can't make out the lyrics. Maybe his lips got tired from all the whistling?
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