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The Swimming Hour is Andrew Bird's third album with Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire. It comprises a blend of musical styles from the 20th century including jazz, gospel, rock, classical, Latin and folk, often accompanied by thoughtful, playful or haunting vocals and lyrics.

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The Swimming Hour

Studio album by

Andrew Bird

Released

April 3, 2001

Genre

Indie rock

Length

50:27

Label

Rykodisc

Producer

Andrew Bird, David Boucher

Andrew Bird chronology

Oh! The Grandeur
(1999)

The Swimming Hour
(2001)

Fingerlings
(2002)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	link
Pitchfork Media	9.0/10 link

Track listing

All tracks are written by Andrew Bird.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Two Way Action"	4:43
2.	"Core and Rind"	3:02
3.	"Why?"	3:31
4.	"11:11"	3:34
5.	"Case in Point"	4:49
6.	"Too Long" (Mississippi Sheiks cover)	2:33
7.	"Way Out West"	4:06
8.	"Waiting to Talk"	4:13
9.	"Fatal Flower Garden" (Nelstone's Hawaiians cover)	4:43
10.	"Satisfied"	3:17
11.	"Headsoak"	3:53
12.	"How Indiscreet"	4:34
13.	"Dear Old Greenland"	3:29

Other appearances

Live versions of "Why" and "How Indiscreet" are found on the album Fingerlings.

v t e Andrew Bird
Solo albums	Music of Hair (1996) Weather Systems (2003) Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs (2005) Armchair Apocrypha (2007) Noble Beast (2009) Break It Yourself (2012) Hands of Glory (2012) Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of… (2014) Echolocations: Canyon (2015) Are You Serious (2016) Echolocations: River (2017) My Finest Work Yet (2019) Hark! (2020)
Bowl of Fire albums	Thrills (1998) Oh! The Grandeur (1999) The Swimming Hour (2001)
Live albums	Fingerlings (2002) Fingerlings 2 (2004) Fingerlings 3 (2006) Fingerlings 4 (2010)
EPs	The Ballad of the Red Shoes (2002) Soldier On (2007) Fitz and the Dizzy Spells (2009) I Want to See Pulaski at Night (2013)
Collaborative albums	These 13 (2021)
Related bands	The Handsome Family Squirrel Nut Zippers
See also	Martin Dosh Tift Merritt Jeremy Ylvisaker

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