ANDREW BIRD - INSIDE PROBLEMS - LOMA VISTA / CONCORD

Today, Andrew Bird releases new album Inside Problems, a collection of 11 original songs that “transports listeners to a lush musical world” (NPR Music), in an exploration of the complex thoughts, questions and middle-of-the-night obsessions swirling around in each of us.

Produced by Mike Viola, Bird and his four-piece band tracked the LP live and straight to tape with nearly no overdubs, resulting in his most rousing and visceral record yet.

Arriving at another apex of his acclaimed and constantly evolving career, from cracking the Billboard Top 10 on Break It Yourself to earning his first Grammy nomination for My Finest Work Yet, making his professional acting debut in Fargo, and scoring film’s like Judd Apatow's The Bubble and PBS’ Peabody-nominated Storm Lake, “Inside Problems tackles the demons that even Headspace can't deter” (Document Journal). On Inside Problems, Andrew Bird says:

"From Orpheus to Icarus, depths to heights, and the thresholds in between. I’m interested in the moment when something becomes something else, when somewhere becomes somewhere else. That membrane that separates inside from outside. Retreating as we do in to the underlands, to molt our plumage, to exorcise our inside problems and emerge like newborn foals shaking, naked, squinting in the light. Don’t you know that I’m an irrepressible optimist working with a fatal flaw?”