MP3s: Bowerbirds - "Northern Lights","Dark Horse"

Bowerbirds have just released their second album, Upper Air (June 30, 2009), two years after their debut album, Hymns for a Dark Horse (2007).  The Mountain Goats, John Darnielle, referred to them as his "new favorite band in forever."  If your stomach is growling for comforting dry chord arrangements, smothered harmonizations, a side of accordion, and a splash of piano and violins this will definitely fulfill your cravings.  "Northern Lights" is off their newest release, Upper Air.  He describes polar opposites when he proclaims "I don't expect a southern girl to know the northern lights."  Definitely the most diary-esque song on the album written by singer Phil Moore is "Crooked Lust."  A gorgeous song that can't help but make you feel vulnerable and think "I've been there, or am there" alongside Moore.  The other song "Dark Horse" is their best song from their debut Hymns for a Dark Horse.  Depressingly sad lyrics, "Came the call of a loon..He spoke to my center...He spoke of the future...He sang, You my friend, are  alone" with an optimistic outlook "we stow our words in the cellar, so we never lose hope."