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Break it Yourself is Andrew Bird's sixth solo studio album release on March 5th, 2012. Bird has released two non-album cuts on a 7" also called Break It Yourself. The A-side is a cover of Alpha Consumer's "The Crown Salesman" and the B-side is a cover of the Handsome Family's "So Much Wine." Bird's writing has changed over the course of his career, and this is shown in Break it Yourself: "Andrew Bird has gradually added more layers to his songwriting, very often intertwining the political with the microscopic, the humdrum with the fantastical, the made-up word with the pointed phrase," says Pitchfork, giving the album a 7.5.