I’ve been completely unaware that Andrew Bird has a new album out. Also unbeknownst to me is his show that’s happening on the 18th at the Orpheum. I’m too busy to go (DAMMIT!), so I’ll just have to settle for buying the album.

Oh, and listen to his interview from All Things Considered.

I think of like, when I was a kid, and I would get my Sherlock Holmes magnifying glass and throw myself down in a pile of mulch or something and go in there and pretend that I was microscopic. I wanted to capture that kind of woody, mossy, decaying kind of sound.