{"id":44309,"date":"2016-04-11T13:15:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T18:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=44309"},"modified":"2016-04-11T13:15:40","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T18:15:40","slug":"andrew-bird-are-you-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2016\/04\/11\/andrew-bird-are-you-serious\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Bird: Are You Serious?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright wp-image-44310\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/areyouserious_bird.jpg?fit=300%2C300\" alt=\"areyouserious_bird\" width=\"270\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/areyouserious_bird.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/areyouserious_bird-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/areyouserious_bird-125x125.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/>Andrew Bird is at it again with his new release <em>Are You Serious?<\/em>, out now through Loma Vista Records. For those familiar with Bird\u2019s work, this album offers plenty of familiar ground. His patented violin folk rock filled with layers of loops and whistles has arrived in full. Unlike his previous work, this album is much more emotionally open. Bird has been known to have difficult, almost coded lyrics that take time to solve. However, possibly thanks to his new marriage, he switches out the cryptic metaphors for head-on explorations of relationships past and present.<\/p>\n<p>Songs such as \u201cCapsized,\u201d \u201cChemical Switches,\u201d and \u201cTruth Lies Low\u201d focus on the difficulties of relationships and how easily they can end, while \u201cLeft Handed Kisses,\u201d \u201cAre You Serious,\u201d and \u201cBellevue\u201d turn that focus around to the surprise of having actually found someone who is going to stick it out with you for your entire life. \u201cLeft Handed Kisses,\u201d one of the standouts of the album, plays with the singer\u2019s disbelief that \u201cNow you\u2019ve got me writing love songs.\u201d The title track, \u201cAre You Serious,\u201d is the real set piece of the album though as it goes over the thoughts of a person who is deciding whether or not they should go through with marriage. Asking \u201care you serious\u201d enough to go through with this \u201ccause every night of your life you\u2019ll fight for it.\u201d Overall, Bird brings his familiar sounds with a new lyrical honesty that fits well with his larger oeuvre and will be welcome by all of his fans.<br \/>\n<b><br \/>\nRecommended If You Like: Sufjan Stevens, M. Ward, Father John Misty<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Recommended Tracks: 4( Puma), 6 (Left Handed Kisses), 9 (The New Saint Jude)<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Do Not Play: None<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Written by Zach Hill on 04\/11\/16 <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bird brings his familiar sounds with a new lyrical honesty that fits well with his larger oeuvre and will be welcome by all of his fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12267,"featured_media":44310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3235,3230,181],"tags":[4817,4818,11,4255],"class_list":["post-44309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-music-reviews","category-new-music-rotation","category-rock-rotation","tag-andrew-bird","tag-are-you-serious","tag-new-music-rotation","tag-zach-hill"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/areyouserious_bird.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}