From the Neumo's site, "The best songs of North Carolina’s Bowerbirds have always seemed equally eternal. Coruscated by Beth Tacular’s bird song and Phil Moore’s environmentalist empathy, “In Our Talons” was, at its core, a quest for solidarity in a world of closing shadows. “Northern Lights” painted a pained portrait of love shrouded in doubt as perfectly as Cash, Dylan or Cohen ever have. These felt like more than songs; they felt like treasures. But those recordings were made on the quick and the cheap, with nylon-stringed guitars, fiddle lines and drum patterns that became comfortable. You could imagine these songs as old stateside standards, because, really, that’s how they sounded–campfire anthems sung by a couple clinging to very deep love."