Raleigh-based Bowerbirds are this week’s featured band on the NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series. Although this comes right on the heels of their appearance on Pitchfork’s Cemetery Gates series, the spot was actually recorded in early July.
In this captivating Tiny Desk Concert — performed on July 7, the same day Upper Air was officially released — the band seems to feel at home with the barest essentials, revealing lived-in melodies and inviting vocal harmonies that resonated throughout the NPR Music offices.
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