Best new album by a local artist (in the last year or so)

September 27, 2007 at 9:26 pm by Jan Hieggelke

by Jan Hieggelke

September 27, 2007Filed under:

Culture & Nightlife

Andrew Bird, “Armchair Apocrypha” (Fat Possum)
Chicago’s beloved son returned this year with his mash-up with electronic artists Martin Dosh, a dark, scientific exercise that’s his best effort yet. Relying less on his stupefying violin and whistling skills and more on the atmospheric elements of his voice and guitar-playing, Bird’s masterpiece is an atom bomb of brooding, exhausting joy.

Best of Chicago 2007

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