Weather Systems

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Weather Systems
Weather Systems cover
Studio album by Andrew Bird
Released April 1, 2003
Length 34:03
Label Grimsey Records, re-released on Righteous Babe
Producer Mark Nevers
Professional reviews
Andrew Bird chronology
The Ballad of the Red Shoes
(2002)		 Weather Systems
(2003)		 The Mysterious Production of Eggs
(2005)

Weather Systems, released in 2003, is Andrew Bird's first solo album after disbanding the Bowl of Fire. Bird has said that the album was simply a side project during his four or five year recording of The Mysterious Production of Eggs. At least two of the songs on the album suggest this fact: "I" is a slower, more dreary version of Armchair Apocrypha's "Imitosis," and "Skin" is a similarly slow, instrumental version of The Mysterious Production of Eggs' "Skin is, My."

The disk features an eight minute film by Robert Trandson about Bird and the recording of the album. The cover art was done by Jay Ryan.

The first track, "First Song," borrows its title and most of its lyrics from a poem in Galway Kinnell's book, What a Kingdom It Was, published in 1960. The last song, "Don't Be Scared," is Bird's version of a song written and performed originally by the Handsome Family.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "First Song" – 4:19
  2. "I" – 3:13
  3. "Lull" – 5:09
  4. "Action/Adventure" – 4:04
  5. "→" – 1:36
  6. "Skin" – 2:53
  7. "Weather Systems" – 6:31
  8. "Don't Be Scared" – 3:40
  9. "←" – 2:38
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Andrew Bird
Solo albums
Music of Hair (1996) · Weather Systems (2003) · The Mysterious Production of Eggs (2005) · Armchair Apocrypha (2007)
"Bowl of Fire" albums
Thrills (1998) · Oh! The Grandeur (1999) · The Swimming Hour (2001)
Live albums
Fingerlings (2002) · Fingerlings 2 (2004) · Fingerlings 3 (2006)
EPs and singles
The Ballad of the Red Shoes (2002) · "Sovay" (2005) · Live at Bonnaroo Music Festival (2006) · Soldier On (2007)
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