Bowerbirds Hymns for a Dark Horse [Reissue]

• Hooves
• In Our Talons
• Human Hands
• Dark Horse
• Bur Oak
• My Oldest Memory
• The Marbled Godwit
• Slow Down
• The Ticonderoga
• Olive Hearts
• La Denigracion
• Matchstick Maker

The debut album from earthy folk act Bowerbirds, Hymns from a Dark Horse, was quite the revelation in 2007. It seemed out of time, Emersonian, Whitmanesque, transcendental. Secretly Canadian/Jagjaguwar affiliate label Dead Oceans liked the album so much that the imprint signed the band and is re-releasing Hymns (it was originally released by tiny label Burly Time), with two bonus tracks: "Matchstick Maker" and "La Denigracion." The album is also being released on vinyl and available worldwide, which wasn't the case with its original release.

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Band: http://www.bowerbirds.org

Label: http://www.deadoceans.com

Audio: http://www.myspace.com/bowerbirds 

Abstract by John Zeiss