| The Impossible Bird | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Nick Lowe |
| Cover: | Impossible-bird-nick-lowe.jpg |
| Genre: | Country rock[1] |
| Length: | 40:12 |
| Prev Title: | Party of One |
| Prev Year: | 1990 |
| Next Title: | Dig My Mood |
| Next Year: | 1998 |
The Impossible Bird is an album by British singer-songwriter Nick Lowe. Produced by Lowe and Neil Brockbank, it was released in the United Kingdom in 1994 on Demon Records and elsewhere by Upstart Records.[2]
In a contemporary review of The Impossible Bird, Rolling Stone critic Paul Evans said that the album showed Lowe "in excellent form" with songs that "demonstrate a prodigious productivity and an emotional realism that ranges from heartbreak... to a well-earned bittersweet humor".[3] People called it a "high point" for Lowe,[4] while Los Angeles Times critic Mike Boehm wrote: "The only real impossibility on this album lies in trying to resist the gently seductive pop charms of the crafty old bird who made it."[5] Less receptive was Robert Christgau of The Village Voice, who merely gave the album a "neither" rating.[6]