One could arguably describe Andrew Bird as the quietest, most exquisite big deal in the music business. Break It Yourself was put together in a more traditional way, recorded to eight track at Bird's barn in Western Illinois with a core group of drummer Martin Dosh, guitarist and keys man Jeremy Ylvisaker and Mike Lewis on tenor sax and bass. Break It Yourself is as warm-hearted and eclectic as ever. It sounds like all the music and no music you've ever heard, from jazz to country to classical to folk and pop, visiting a thousand exotic places along the way and the public has no problem with that.