Andrew Bird Finishes New Studio Album, Releases Live Record

Indie rock’s favourite whistler, Andrew Bird has announced his next studio full-length is all ready to go. Titled Noble Beast, the album is due to hit shops January 27 via Fat Possum and will follow up last year’s Armchair Apocrypha.

Along with Noble Beast, the Chicago songwriter also has a new live offering available at his webshop and at shows. That release is titled Live in Montreal and, as the title clearly points out, was recorded live in Montreal at the city’s La Tulipe. It features a three-man band made up of Bird, Martin Dosh and Jeremy Ylvisaker, and was recorded in September 2007.

Here are the tracklistings for both of those records:

Noble Beast:

1. "Oh No”
2. "Masterswarm”
3. "Fitz and the Dizzyspells”
4. "Effigy”
5. "Tenuousness”
6. "Nomenclature”
7. "Not a Robot, But a Ghost”
8. "Anonanimal”
9. "Natural Disaster”
10. "Confess”
11. "Souverian”
12. "On Ho!”

Live in Montreal:

1. "Intro”
2. "Why?”
3. "Opposite Day”
4. "Simple X”
5. "Cannonade”
6. "Imitosis”
7. "Spare-Ohs”
8. "Skin Is, My”
9. "Darkmatter”

Andrew Bird "Imitosis"