New Bowerbirds - "Northern Lights"

With their debut, Bowerbirds emerged as a great new hope for tree-hugging folk, melodies strong enough to count Bon Iver a fan and mate, prose pithy enough for John Darnielle's endorsement. The culmination of their aesthetic then was this devastatingly poetic video for the devastatingly poetic gypsy folk of "In Our Talons," an environmentalist elegy which spoke direly and ended ambiguously: "We're only human; this at least we've learned." "Northern Lights," the lead single from their forthcoming...

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