Hear New Andrew Bird For Free

01/06/09 4:45pm

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

You can hear Andrew Bird's new Noble Beast before it hits stores on Jan. 20 through Fat Possum. The album is streaming on National Public Radio's website as part of its Exclusive First Listen series.

The 14-track follow-up to 2007's Armchair Apocrypha is Bird's eighth studio release.

Bird has these dates lined up:

Jan. 19 Washington, DC @ Black Cat (The Big Shoulders Ball)
Jan. 25 Philadelphia, PA @ Theater Of The Living Arts
Jan. 28 New York, NY @ Carnegie Hall
Jan. 30 Boston, MA @ Orpheum Theatre
Feb. 3 Washington, DC @ Nightclub 9:30
Feb. 4 Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse
Feb. 6 Orlando, FL @ The Plaza Theatre
Feb. 7 New Orleans, LA @ House Of Blues
Feb. 12 Austin, TX @ The Paramount Theatre
Feb. 13 Albuquerque, NM @ The El Rey Theatre
Feb. 14 Tucson, AZ @ The Rialto Theatre
Feb. 15 San Diego, CA @ SOMA
Feb. 18 Los Angeles, CA @ The Orpheum Theatre
Feb. 19-20 San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
Feb. 21 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
Feb. 23 Seattle, WA @ The Moore Theatre
Feb. 24 Boise, ID @ The Knitting Factory
Feb. 25 Murray, UT @ The Murray Theater
Feb. 26 Denver, CO @ The Ogden Theater
Feb. 27 Omaha, NE @ Slowdown
Feb. 28 Des Moines, IA @ Hoyt Sherman Place
March 15 St. Louis, MO @ The Pageant
March 16 Lawrence, KS @ Liberty Hall
March 17 Tulsa, OK @ Cain's Ballroom
March 21 Houston, TX @ House Of Blues
March 22 Dallas, TX @ Granada Theater
March 23 Oxford, MS @ The Lyric Oxford
April 3 Toronto, ON @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre
April 4 Montreal, QC @ Le National
April 5 South Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground
April 7 Pittsburgh, PA @ Carnegie Music Hall
April 10 Chicago, IL @ Civic Opera House
April 11 Minneapolis, MN @ The State Theater

Here are the tracks on Noble Beast:

"Oh No"
"Masterswarm"
"Fitz And The Dizzy Spells"
"Effigy"
"Tenuousness"
"Nomenclature"
"Ouo"
"Not A Robot, But A Ghost"
"Unfolding Fans"
"Anonanimal"
"Natural Disaster"
"The Privateers"
"Souverian"
"On Ho!"