Bowerbirds released one of the biggest surprises of 2007 with their splendid Hymns for a Dark Horse. Too bad no one got the opportunity to buy it at record stores. The North Carolina trio split with Burly Time Records presumably after the startup indie label couldn't handle that whole distribution part of the job. Bowerbirds now call Dead Oceans home according to the band's MySpace page: We have signed to our favorite US record label, Dead Oceans, home to such bands as Dirty Projectors, White Hinterland, Evangelicals, Citay, Phosphorescent, and Bishop Allen. Dead Oceans is a relatively new sister label to Jagjaguwar and Secretly Canadian. We are very pleased to be added to their roster.
Dead Oceans will re-release Hymns for a Dark Horse, the album we sort of released last summer, but which never made it to more than 8 or so record stores in the whole United States. They will release it on CD and vinyl! and put it in stores nationwide this late spring -- and the new version will come with two secret bonus tracks that have never been recorded! They will also release another new album by us, later this year. The music will also be released internationally, for our friends far and wide
MP3: Bowerbirds - "In Our Talons"
