Andrew Bird Shares Cat-Filled Video for Eccentric, Exhilarating Single "Make a Picture"

Today, with the release of his cat-filled music video for new single "Make a Picture,"Andrew Bird shares the final preview of his most lush and rousing album yet. Out this Friday, June 3rd on Loma Vista Recordings, Inside Problems is a collection of 11 original songs about the complex thoughts, questions and middle-of-the-night obsessions swirling around in each of us. Delivering his signature synthesis of unforgettable melodies, magnetic energy and inventive turns of phrase, "Make a Picture" extends a lineage of exhilarating hits like "Sisyphus," "Roma Fade" and more, injected with the inner demons and uncanny imagery that uniquely defines the world of Inside Problems. 

On "Make a Picture," Andrew Bird describes scenes of running through streets like feral cats, defying the impossible and rising above cries of a wounded metropolis and pliable populace, as he refers to himself as an irrepressible optimist working with a fatal flaw. Directed by Matthew Daniel Siskin, the music video manifests the track eccentrically, capturing Bird in the midst of a photoshoot with a pack of felines, in between shifts at a lone hospital desk, where he performs a minor surgery to extract frames of film from beneath his skin. 

Listen to "Make a Picture," and watch the music video here: 

https://found.ee/AB_MakeAPictureVideo 

Andrew Bird says, "'Make a Picture' is about digesting images from historic events and constituting a narrative for your memory. 'Tell us what you think you saw. Make a picture.' We saw a lot of horror and darkness and a lot of inspiring bravery. So, what's the story we tell after digesting? What's the synapses' synopsis?"

"Make a Picture" is the latest in a recent streak of stirring new singles and striking visuals to emerge from Inside Problems, following album opener "Underlands," the Joan Didion-inspired "Atomized," and an enigmatic short film that took viewers deeper into the abstract mindset and curious quandaries behind the album. As Document Journal says, "Inside Problems tackles the demons that even Headspace can't deter...in its 11 songs, the album explores the inevitable presence of thresholds, whether they emerge in mundane moments, like standing in a doorway, or more substantial ones, like crossing state lines."

Like all of Inside Problems, "Make a Picture" was produced by Mike Viola and recorded live and straight to tape by Andrew Bird and his four-piece band. With nearly no overdubs, the music "transports listeners to a lush musical world" (NPR Music), and starting on June 15th at Los Angeles' Greek Theatre, Bird will play the songs live on his first tour in nearly three years. Co-headlined with Iron & Wine, the extensive run of "Outside Problems" shows will stretch from coast to coast, including sold-out stops at Colorado's Red Rocks, NYC's Pier 17 and Chicago's brand new Salt Shed, as well as performances at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium and more, with support from Allison Russell, Meshell Ndegeocello and Neko Case. 

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