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| Popmatters |
 So, full disclosure I, suppose: if I’d have known Norman were a soundtrack before I had the opportunity to review it, I wouldn’t have been interested in covering it. For me, the appeal in Andrew Bird has always lied in his vocals and the strange tales he decides to tell over his violin loops and guitar strums. I was taken by his instrumental sensibilities, sure, but only in the sense that it was pretty amazing to see him pull them off live in the years following The Mysterious Production of Eggs and they were capable of backing some pretty awesome, catchy pop songs.I say all this to say that skipping Norman on such a basis would be a pretty fancy mistake. It’s true that Norman is a more instrumental, soundtrack-y release than anything Bird’s released to this point, but only at the times when a song by Chad VanGaalen, Wolf Parade or the Blow is playing does one get the impression they aren’t hearing an entirely new Andrew Bird album. Norman opens with the typical sort of haunting beauty one would expect from Bird, though it’s simply condensed into compact two minutes or less segments optimized for film reels instead of the usual four. Adding to the intrigue of Norman are the three artists I previously mentioned, two of which provide older fan favorites while Khaela Maricich revives her the Blow moniker to collaborate with Richard Swift (a producer who recently joined the ranks of the Shins) for one of the album’s longer cuts. Wolf Parade whip together a remix of “I Am a Runner” that sounds wholly unfamiliar to the original (think glockenspiels!) and practically certifies the price of admission on its own, while Chad VanGaalen throws “Rabid Bits of Time” from his 2008 album, Soft Airplane, into the ring. Since Bird doesn’t do much vocalizing other than the early red herring “Arcs and Coloumbs”, it’s definitely nice to have these songs to both enhance the mood of the album and, in some ways, break up the monotony of it....full text |
| Indierockreviews |
| Andrew Bird scored the new Sundance phenom, Norman. It’s a flick all about high school dramatics. You can listen right now to Andrew’s beautiful score at his Facebook page. Norman opens up October 21th at finer theaters throughout the country. And look for Mr. Bird on tour....full text |
| Exclaim. |
| While last week we learned that whistling indie tunesmith Andrew Bird is the subject of an upcoming tour documentary, let's not forget that this isn't the first movie work the songwriter has got. Way back in 2009, Bird announced that he would be scoring the independent film Norman, a coming of age flick about a troubled teen. The film is now set to be released this fall, and naturally so will Bird's score. The soundtrack to Norman is set to hit shelves October 11 on Mom + Pop, just before the film's opening on October 21. While a tracklisting has yet to be revealed, the set is said to contain Bird's all-instrumental passages from the film, as well as new and previously released tunes from the Blow, Wolf Parade and Chad VanGaalen. As previously reported, Bird's first attempt at a film score maybe wasn't as smooth as he had hoped. "This is the first legitimate full-length film that I did," he said. "I had the monitor of the film in the studio and I'm playing. It's a lot of work. I don't know if I ever want to do it again." In other Bird news, the artist is reportedly nearly done his follow up to 2009's Noble Beast....full text |
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