{"id":483013,"date":"2019-03-05T12:06:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T19:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=803515"},"modified":"2019-03-05T12:06:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T19:06:45","slug":"hear-andrew-birds-evolutionary-folk-rock-epic-manifest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/hear-andrew-birds-evolutionary-folk-rock-epic-manifest\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Andrew Bird\u2019s Evolutionary Folk-Rock Epic \u2018Manifest\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/andrew-bird-manifest.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/andrew-bird\/\" id=\"auto-tag_andrew-bird\" data-tag=\"andrew-bird\">Andrew Bird<\/a> unspools an ambitious take on the circle of life on new song \u201cManifest.\u201d The track will appear on Bird\u2019s upcoming album, <em>My Finest Work Yet<\/em>, out March 22nd via Loma Vista Recordings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cManifest\u201d is a sweeping folk-rock tune that Bird says \u201ctraces our evolution from single celled organisms to modern man \u2013 then takes it further, post-mortem, to when a plant or animal becomes a fossil fuel fracked from the ground and released into the atmosphere from combustion engines like ghosts. The after-life of energy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The track arrives with a video of Bird and some of the studio musicians who helped him record <em>My Finest Work Yet<\/em> performing the track at Barefoot Studios in Los Angeles, where they made the rest of the album as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cManifest\u201d follows previously released tracks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/andrew-bird-sisyphus-video-790728\/\">\u201cSisyphus\u201d<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YEFLR2JnMd0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cBloodless.\u201d<\/a> <em>My Finest Work Yet<\/em> follows Bird\u2019s 2017 album, <em>Echolocations: River,<\/em> the second installment of his \u201cEcholocations\u201d series, which prominently features field recordings. Bird\u2019s last full-length studio album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/andrew-bird-announces-new-album-are-you-serious-tour-dates-91592\/\"><em>Are You Serious<\/em><\/a>, arrived in 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Bird has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrewbird.net\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">handful of shows<\/a> scheduled this spring in support of <em>My Finest Work Yet<\/em>. The first pair will take place March 7th and 8th at Largo in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/andrew-bird-new-song-manifest-my-finest-work-yet-803515\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Bird unspools an ambitious take on the circle of life on new song \u201cManifest.\u201d The track will appear on Bird\u2019s upcoming album, My Finest Work Yet, out March 22nd via Loma Vista Recordings. \u201cManifest\u201d is a sweeping folk-rock tune that Bird says \u201ctraces our evolution from single celled organisms to modern man \u2013 then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-483013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 23:11:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}