This week, I reviewed Andrew Bird’s Noble Beast and its bonus disc, Useless Creatures, for PopMatters. While I love just about everything Bird has done so far, I just wasn’t feeling Noble Beast for reasons that I had a great deal of difficulty pinpointing. As a result, my review ends up sharing a lot of flaws with the album it purports to describe—rambling, unfocused, unnecessarily long. Does this mean that I’m as good a writer as Andrew Bird is a musician, composer and songwriter? I certainly hope so!
