Album: Are You Serious by Andrew Bird (2016)
Genre: Indie | Style: Folk
Record Label: Concord Music Group, Inc.
Format: Album

Description: "Are You Serious"  is an album by Andrew Bird, released on April 1, 2016 on the Loma Vista label. The album features collaborations with Fiona Apple and Blake Mills.
Are You Serious received generally favourable reviews from music critics, with a score of 78 out of 100 on the review aggregator website Metacritic. NPR's Bob Boilen described Are You Serious as Bird's most personal album to date, writing that "Andrew Bird's lyrics are often a kind of cryptic code, wordplay about the human condition, but on Are You Serious he reveals more about his own life including a blossoming relationship between two relative introverts and the birth of their son."

Artist Background: Andrew Wegman Bird (born July 11, 1973) is an American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Trained in the Suzuki method from the age of four, Bird graduated from Lake Forest High School in 1991 and Northwestern University with a bachelor's degree in violin performance in 1996. That same year he self-released his first solo album, Music of Hair. Vastly different from his later work, this album showcased his violin skills and paid tribute to his fascination with both American and E... Part of the Chicago, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1990s era.

Related Artists: Madison Cunningham, M. Ward, Iron & Wine, Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire

Music Scene: Part of the Chicago, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1990s era.

Tags: Indie, Folk, 2010s, Album, Concord Music Group, Inc.

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"Are You Serious"  is an album by Andrew Bird, released on April 1, 2016 on the Loma Vista label. The album features collaborations with Fiona Apple and Blake Mills.
Are You Serious received generally favourable reviews from music critics, with a score of 78 out of 100 on the review aggregator website Metacritic. NPR's Bob Boilen described Are You Serious as Bird's most personal album to date, writing that "Andrew Bird's lyrics are often a kind of cryptic code, wordplay about the human condition, but on Are You Serious he reveals more about his own life including a blossoming relationship between two relative introverts and the birth of their son."

Are You Serious

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