Break It Yourself

Break It Yourself is the sixth studio album by singer-songwriter Andrew Bird. The 2012 release finds Bird as warm-hearted and eclectic as ever and sounds like all the music and no music you've ever heard, from jazz to country to classical to folk and pop, visiting a thousand exotic places along the way. Home to the acclaimed tracks "Eyeoneye" and "Lusitania" (a duet with Annie Clark of St. Vincent), it was recorded to eight track at Bird's barn in Western Illinois with a core group of drummer Martin Dosh, guitarist and keys man Jeremy Ylvisaker and Mike Lewis on tenor sax and bass. "It started out as a glorified rehearsal, the opposite of production, four musicians playing in a room together," he says, eager to avoid the traps of modern recording. "Too many records sound like a series of decisions, not a performance." This picture disc vinyl re-issue includes a commemorative 10 Years of Mom + Pop anniversary poster and sticker.