Uploaded by sxsw on Feb 19, 2010
Bowerbirds' debut album, Hymns for a Dark Horse, was nearly one hundred percent focused on the thesis that the earth is a sacred place with merit beyond us, and that humans are just visitors here. Its contrapuntal harmonies documented a moment in the life of the songwriter and the life of the band Beth Tacular and Phil Moore living in an airstream in rural North Carolina, building a cabin of reclaimed boards by hand in the woods but did so without, as far as we could tell, delving into their lives at all. While these weren't protest songs, per se, they had the wry anger of a "Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll." The songs were interconnected, both musically and thematically, a musical whitepaper of the very best, most listenable kind.
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SritaPandDulce 7 months ago
This song is magic. I can't get it out of my head - nor do I want to.
Jynical 1 year ago
the ending is just beautiful
1eht 1 year ago
Schön
Peacekeeper1984 1 year ago
Wonderful. ♥ Not more to say.
MissFellfrosch 1 year ago
this video deserves thousands of views best music out there. great job bowerbirds.
AvocadoBrown 1 year ago