Noble Beast
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Noble Beast is the fifth solo studio album by the American singer-songwriter Andrew Bird, and his eighth overall. It was released on January 20, 2009.[1] Two songs from this album were previewed on his webpage; "Oh No" and "Carrion Suite", while the entire album was made available by NPR[2] as a streaming feed. Noble Beast was made available as a standard CD release, a special limited-edition deluxe two-CD package and a double-LP package.
The track "Tenuousness" appears in the closing credits for the 2011 movie Crazy, Stupid, Love.
Reception
Template:Music ratings The album received a Metacritic score of 79 out of 100 based on 29 reviews, indicating generally favorable reviews.[3]
The album debuted on the Billboard 200 chart at No. 12, and No. 3 on the Top Rock Albums Albums chart,[4] selling 26,000 copies in the first week.[5] The album has sold 150,000 copies in the United States since December 2011[update]Template:Dated maintenance category (articles)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"..[6]
Track listing
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Other appearances
- "Not a Robot, But a Ghost" samples from the song "First Impossible," which appears on Dosh's album Wolves and Wishes.
- "The Privateers" uses the same lyrics as "The Confession," a song appearing on Oh! The Grandeur by Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire.
- A different version of "Section 8 City" appears on Fingerlings 4.
Useless Creatures (Deluxe edition bonus disc)
The limited edition of Noble Beast shipped with a companion disc of instrumental songs, entitled Useless Creatures.[7] This collection was made available on Bird's website in early January, before the album's release. Noble Beast / Useless Creatures was deleted after a single run, both in the US and the UK, exclusively.
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Personnel
- Andrew Bird – violin, vocals, whistling, guitar
- Martin Dosh – percussion, looping, keys
- Jeremy Ylvislaker – guitar, bass, organ, shortwave
- Kelly Hogan – background vocals
- Mike Lewis – clarinet
- Todd Sickafoose – double bass
- Ben Martin – cardboard box drums
- Tony Crow – juno
Charts
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References
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- ↑ Paul Thompson, "Andrew Bird to Unleash Noble Beast on New Album" Template:Webarchive, pitchforkmedia.com, October 3, 2008.
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