Bowerbirds
Upper Air

For an outfit with such an abbreviated resumé—one EP and one full-length recorded in 2007 for Raleigh’s Burlytime Records—Bow...

There’s a sort of indescribable quality about Bowerbirds’ music that I can’t quite put a definite description on. It’s warming and charming and usuall...

One of the more charming debuts of 2007, Bowerbirds’ Hymns For a Dark Horse wasted no time in distancing itself from the current freak-folk movement t...

Since their simple, nature-inspired folk caught the attention of the indie public, Bowerbirds have been wrested from their backwoods North Carolina ne...

On 2007's Hymns for a Dark Horse, the Bowerbirds managed to create gorgeous, earthy folk songs that relied as much on their sense of space as their me...

There’s a bit in Proust’s In Search Of Lost Time where he discusses eating a ‘petite madeleine’ soaked in tea, and the involuntary memories and feelin...

On their sophomore release Upper Air, Raleigh, North Carolina band Bowerbirds mature their homespun, American roots sound into territory untouched by ...

The Bowerbirds are on the move with their latest release - Upper Air from Dead Oceans Records. To support the record and share with their fans, they'r...

Bowerbirds shouldn't work. A boyfriend and girlfriend, he equipped with acoustic guitar, she with accordion, singing intensely earnest songs redolent ...

Bowerbirds’ debut, 2007’s Hymns for a Dark Horse, was both a naturalistic paean to the Earth and a chastisement to those who don’t respect it. If thei...