Reader Recommendation – Bowerbirds
It’s quite the understatement when I say that I love it when readers recommend music to me. I get promos more and more these days now that I’m a big time blogger (yeah right!), and most times I only like a select few of the bands I receive. But when a reader recommends music to me, it’s almost always one I enjoy because you guys know me and the music I like because you’ve listened to my own recommendations. So, here’s the start of a new section on the blog: Reader Recommendations. Don’t feel obligated to contact me directly with a recommendation, but most of you know how I feel about fan interaction, it being the main selling point of our label and all, and my blog’s no different. It’s mainly about you guys, so recommend away and the ones I really like will get featured on my site and your name will be front and center for everyone to see. Exciting I know.
Today’s recommendation is an excellent one. We’ll see if it tops B.J’s recommendation of Detektivbyran (that’ll be hard for sure), but I’ve streamed the album from their myspace and love it. Who’s the band? The band is Bowerbirds and you can thank Ryan for this one. They’re from his area of North Carolina and according to him they’re great live. The more I listen to them, the more jealous I’m getting that he’s seen them live. Regardless, for all of you who like comparisons, I’d call them a mix between the calm moments of both Voxtrot and Bishop Allen. The solo acoustic songs like “Knives and Snakes and Mosquitoes” remind me of the solo acoustic songs of Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s. It’s relaxing, with strings throughout, and a fine album for a mid-summer’s afternoon.
If you needed more reason to listen to them, they toured with The Rosebuds and they rave about Bowerbirds. Also, John Darnielle loves them as well calling them “the best band you haven’t heard“. Eh? How about that? I’d take those people as fans of my music any day. So, check out Bowerbirds and thank Ryan later.
In Our Talons [mp3]
Dark Horse [mp3]
Official Site / Myspace / Buy Hymns for a Dark Horse
Previous Reader Recommendations:
- Detektivbyran – recommended by B.J.
Keep the recommendations coming!
seriously, even youtube it, Guillemots-Trains to Brasil
Guillemots-Made Up Love Song #43
and really anything else by them.
and if you speak French, then there’s absolutely tons of amazing singers, including Emily Loizeau, which you can find on youtube as well. Good ones by her are “Jalouse” and “L’Autre Bout Du Monde”. unless not understanding what she’s saying bugs you, then you really oughta listen to those!