This is a mini-jamboree of freak folk, featuring a fine pair of North Carolina-based bands. Bowerbirds play sparse, entrancing acoustic music that's a crucial blend of folk, country, and indie pop, seemingly as creaky as an old shack buried in the woods but savvy to a more sophisticated aesthetic. Principals Phil Moore and Beth Tacular weave fractured harmonies that seem as ancient as the hills, if the hills had recently been alive with the sounds of John Doe and Exene Cervenka. On their quirky, spookily... More >>>