The Late Post

Since woodhead told me that Andrew Bird had a new album come out, two months just passed without making a sound. I recalled it at this Sunday night after a two-hour badminton excercise, one-hour cooking, and one-hour dinner. Piero Scaruffi listed it as one of the best in year 2007, though there's still six months aheah. Slowly, I remmembered that I've tried to find some mp3 files from that album with slsk and finally falied. The only song I heard is the free mp3 named Heretics provided on Bird's offical website. Without getting any sound tracks after great efforts, the most interesting I could see and say is the beatiful and symbolistic cover picture from Lynne Roberts-Goodwin. Bad Bird #7 in his photographs Landing is chosen here. The birdie has graceful dark-light pattern on its furs and feathers, whose left-leaned body is connected with a upright head and neck. But the most attractive point in this picture is only the back of the bird is photographed, and I should admit, it is also a brilliant idea. The line of sight is not going to end on the surface of this picture, but curved, rotated and accelerated toward the front of the bird, toward the deep inside of the picture. Meanwhile, you will not feel too upset after failure in digging the meaning beneath the 2-dimension surface, the back of the birdie still emits lots of light, which warms you, calms you and tease you.

Armchair Apocrypha (2007)