‘Andrew Bird affirms prior to a monumentally grandiose Eyeoneye: “I’d wanna come see a show here” and indeed upon ambling into the Barbican Centre, as ever, tonight carries a sense of the extraordinary. He later quizzes our level of delectation before insinuating we’re “maybe too comfortable” sat atop the hall’s grand cushions and, in airing latest Break It Yourself in its entirety, one may insinuate that he too is feeling comparably casual…’

Dots & Dashes review Andrew Bird at the Barbican Centre…

‘Although you’d perhaps not elect Break It Yourself within the parameters of the intrinsically restricting Desert Island Discs series, it’s far from one to go hurling out to sea either.’

Dots & Dashes review the latest full-length from Chicago’s Andrew Bird, released in the UK this week via Bella Union…

Andrew Bird, Barbican Centre, 5th March 2012.