Andy Shauf: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

May 20, 2016 by ROBIN HILTON Saskatchewan singersongwriter Andy Shauf is the kind of guy you d find laying low at a party, maybe tucked into the corner of a room with a drink in his hand, keeping to himself but taking everything in. He s softspoken and reserved, more comfortable delivering the news than being a part of it (though comfortable may be too strong a word). Shauf s latest album is, appropriately enough, called The Party. It s an emotionally remote collection of character studies and bent observations made during a gathering of drunken fools, smooth operators and the painfully selfaware. Andy Shauf recently brought The Party to the NPR Music offices for this quietly affecting Tiny Desk performance. His set opens with The Magician, a song about a poser schmoozing his way through a crowd, followed by To You, a slightly comical but awkward confession of unrequited love. Shauf closes with the relatively propulsive You re Out Wasting, a meditation on greed, selling out and latenight anxie