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Andrew Bird’s latest outing, Noble Beast, hits stores tomorrow.  Somehow, my copy was shipped to me two weeks early.  I got the deluxe edition that also includes the extra disc of b-sides and instrumentals, Useless Creatures.  The two discs feature vastly different sides of The Bird, but both have their charms.  Noble Beast itself is a fascinating collection of some new sounds as well as some old, but significantly different than his last outing, Armchair Apocrypha.

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