- Weather Systems
Infobox Album
Name = Weather Systems
Type = studio
Longtype =
Artist =Andrew Bird
Released =April 1 ,2003
Recorded =
Genre =
Length = 34:03
Label =Grimsey Records , re-released onRighteous Babe
Producer = Mark Nevers
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusicguide.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kpfyxqraldke link]
*Pitchfork Media (8.3/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/15450-weather-systems link]
Last album = "The Ballad of the Red Shoes "
(2002)
This album = "Weather Systems"
(2003) |
Next album = "The Mysterious Production of Eggs "
(2005)"Weather Systems", released in 2003, is
Andrew Bird 's first solo album after disbanding the Bowl of Fire. Bird has said that the album was simply a side project during his four or five year recording of "The Mysterious Production of Eggs ". At least two of the songs on the album suggest this fact: "I" is a slower, more dreary version of "Armchair Apocrypha's" "Imitosis," and "Skin" is a similarly slow, instrumental version of "The Mysterious Production of Eggs"' "Skin is, My."The disk features an eight minute film by
Robert Trandson about Bird and the recording of the album. The cover art was done by Jay Ryan.The first track, "First Song," borrows its title and most of its lyrics from a poem in
Galway Kinnell 's book, "What a Kingdom It Was", published in 1960. The last song, "Don't Be Scared," is Bird's version of a song written and performed originally by theHandsome Family .Track listing
# "First Song" – 4:19
# "I" – 3:13
# "Lull" – 5:09
# "Action/Adventure" – 4:04
# "→" – 1:36
# "Skin" – 2:53
# "Weather Systems" – 6:31
# "Don't Be Scared" – 3:40
# "←" – 2:38
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