dreamrena replied to your post “If my singular time Online has taught me anything it’s that Tumblr is…”
I’ve just been walking around Brooklyn alternating between Vampire Weekend on sunny days and Weyes Blood on rainy days and contemplating my place in the universe. (I associate Andrew Bird too heavily with his Echolocations project for your description to stick but if I squint I can kinda see it)
Oh for reals, Andrew Bird is a super prolific and eclectic artist, and this is an 18-song album that kinda goes all over the map (like for instance) (Ezra!). But overall I get this more folky vibe than most of Vampire Weekend’s earlier stuff? Which I totally welcome! Someone on Twitter complimentarily called it “summertime sitting around a campfire music.” And when you’re doing this bouncy, rhyme-centric, multi-instrumental indie baroque pop with strings, my mind goes BIRD. Not all of his work, and not all of the songs on Father of the Bride, but I hear shimmers of the ‘Imitosis’, ‘Naming of Things’, ‘Fake Palindromes’, ‘Pulaski At Night’ Andrew Bird in the ‘Sympathy’ (oh man the talky deliveries in ‘Sympathy’!), ‘Big Blue’, ‘How Long?’, ‘Stranger’ Vampire Weekend. Or just following A. Bird’s ‘Lull’ with V. Week’s ‘Rich Man’, that’s a real cute pair.