Andrew Bird – Are You Serious (Deluxe Edition)

Are You Serious is the tenth solo studio album by Andrew Bird, released on April 1, 2016. The album features collaborations with Fiona Apple and Blake Mills.

In an interview with Bob Boilen on All Songs Considered, Bird described how getting married had changed his writing style on this album:

“Knowing that you’re going to be with someone for a long time definitely changes [the way you write], often because you’re sitting in the same room with them as you’re writing, and when you’re sitting on the couch and you know it’s not going to last, you might … have to … encrypt … things. And when you don’t have to do that anymore it might change your writing in that sense.”

Fiona Apple was his first choice to appear on the single “Left Handed Kisses”, and he contacted her through mutual friends. The track’s recording session was, according to Bird, “a long whiskey-fueled night.”