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Released2009-01-20
Record labelBella Union, Fat Possum
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AddedJanuary 16th, 2009
Last updatedSeptember 7th, 2017
AboutNoble Beast is American singer-songwriter Andrew Bird's fifth solo studio album released on January 20, 2009. Two songs from this album were previewed on his webpage, "Oh No" and "Carrion Suite", while the entire album was made available by NPR as a streaming feed. Noble Beast was made available as a standard CD release, a special limited-edition deluxe two-CD package and a double-LP package.
The track "Tenuousness" appears in the closing credits for the 2011 movie Crazy, Stupid, Love.
The album received a Metacritic score of 79 out of 100 based on 29 reviews, indicating generally favorable reviews.
The album debuted on the Billboard 200 chart at No. 12, and No. 3 on the Top Rock Albums chart, selling 26,000 copies in the first week. The album has sold 150,000 copies in the United States as of December 2011.
All tracks written by Andrew Bird, except "Not a Robot, but a Ghost" co-written by Andrew Bird & Martin Dosh and "Unfolding Fans" co-written by Andrew Bird & Jeremy Ylvisaker .
The limited edition of Noble Beast shipped with a companion disc of instrumental songs, entitled Useless Creatures. This collection was made available on Bird's website in early January, before the album's release. Noble Beast / Useless Creatures was deleted after one initial run, both in the US and the UK, exclusively. The track list was:
Master Sigh
You Woke Me Up!
Nyatiti
The Barn Tapes
Carrion Suite
Spinney
Dissent
Hot Math
Sigh Master
The track "Tenuousness" appears in the closing credits for the 2011 movie Crazy, Stupid, Love.
The album received a Metacritic score of 79 out of 100 based on 29 reviews, indicating generally favorable reviews.
The album debuted on the Billboard 200 chart at No. 12, and No. 3 on the Top Rock Albums chart, selling 26,000 copies in the first week. The album has sold 150,000 copies in the United States as of December 2011.
All tracks written by Andrew Bird, except "Not a Robot, but a Ghost" co-written by Andrew Bird & Martin Dosh and "Unfolding Fans" co-written by Andrew Bird & Jeremy Ylvisaker .
The limited edition of Noble Beast shipped with a companion disc of instrumental songs, entitled Useless Creatures. This collection was made available on Bird's website in early January, before the album's release. Noble Beast / Useless Creatures was deleted after one initial run, both in the US and the UK, exclusively. The track list was:
Master Sigh
You Woke Me Up!
Nyatiti
The Barn Tapes
Carrion Suite
Spinney
Dissent
Hot Math
Sigh Master