Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs | ||||
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Studio album by Andrew Bird | ||||
Released | February 8, 2005 | |||
Genre |
Indie Folk Chamber Pop |
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Length | 53:24 | |||
Label | Righteous Babe | |||
Producer | Andrew Bird, David Boucher | |||
Andrew Bird chronology | ||||
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Professional ratings | |
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Aggregate scores | |
Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 85/100 |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | |
Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
The Irish Times | |
Pitchfork Media | 8.3/10 |
PopMatters | 8/10 |
Q | |
Uncut | |
The Village Voice | B |
Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs is the third album of Andrew Bird's career post-Bowl of Fire, released in 2005, following his Weather Systems in 2003. The album art, along with track illustrations in the accompanying booklet were drawn by Jay Ryan. Bird expanded on his earlier work on Weather Systems; the song "Skin Is, My" is an outgrowth of his earlier song "Skin".
"Fake Palindromes" was listed as the 331st best song of the 2000s by the music website Pitchfork Media. Pitchfork Media also placed the album at number 181 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2000s.
The album has sold 80,000 copies in the United States by November 2008.