The only major problem I have with it is that it’s more accessible than Andrew Bird’s earlier music. It is hard to say anything bad about Armchair Apocrypha. At its height, there is a harmony between guitar arpeggios, electric keyboard, and piano with splashes of Bird’s pizzicato violin and electric guitar as well. There are so many stratums of instrument tracks to this song. Scythian Empires is a perfect example of the type of layering that Bird is known for. This can be heard on Simple X which was composed solely by Dosh with an excellent percussion track that flows with Birds violin samples wonderfully. Martin Dosh’s talent adds some new textures to Bird’s music. The meaning of the song is cloudy, but I believe it can be interpreted to show the imminence of the apocalypse. Before the album was released the title had several variations such as “Apocalypse in an Armchair” and “Amrchairs of the Apocalypse”. The climax of the song is a brilliant harmony between the piano, guitar, Bird's vocals, and several loops of droning violin. Bird delivers emotional vocals with such ease at times he is reminiscent of Jeff Buckley.
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By the end of the song it’s hard to believe that only three men created such a full sound. It starts out as a solemn ballad and builds its way up to a powerful coda. Everyone is performing to perfection on this track. This is all put together into an accessible rock song with a dark riff on the keyboards and some great layering on the violin, with a slight influence from spanish music present.Īrmchairs is a personal favorite of mine. What kind of rock singer writes lyrics like “Is just a case of mitosis / Sure fatal doses of malcontent through osmosis”. The lyrics are some of the most interesting Bird has wrote. This is a dark song about science and its downfalls. It is an expansion of “ I” off of Weather Systems. Imitosis is one of the most popular tracks off the album and deservedly so. These songs are probably the closest Andrew Bird will ever come to pop music. These songs are about themes such as embracing death and differing mentalities of society yet Bird portrays them with a child-like attitude, almost poking fun at them. He approaches Heretics and Plasticities with the same whimsical attitude. The album opens with Fiery Crash which Bird describes as a protection from plane crashes “a nod to mortality before you get on the plane” singing “to save our lives you have to envision a fiery crash”. With his extensive vocabulary, he writes about themes such as science and the apocalypse, with such beauty and simplicity. Though this is musically a less complex album, Bird’s lyrics are even more interesting and complicated. Armchair Apocrypha reached number 76 on the Billboard charts giving Bird the most mainstream success he’s had, appearing for the first time on television for David Letterman.Īrmchair Apocrypha is a more straight forward indie/alternative rock album than Bird’s previous work but it retains the similar layered sound as Mysterious Production. Haley Bonar also makes several appearances on back up vocals. Co-collaborator Martin Dosh joined with Bird and adds percussion and keyboards to his sound, as well as Jeremy Ylvisaker who was added for bass and back up vocals. After the success of Mysterious Production of Eggs, Andrew Bird signed to Fat Possum Records to release Armchair Apocrypha in 2007.
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