Bowerbirds - The Clearing [2012] [320] torrent

01. Tuck the Darkness In (4:50)
02. In the Yard (4:07)
03. Walk the Furrows (3:55)
04. Stitch the Hem (4:10)
05. This Year (3:38)
06. Brave World (4:29)
07. Hush (4:04)
08. Overcome with Light (3:09)
09. Sweet Moment (2:41)
10. Death Wish (4:16)
11. Now We Hurry On (6:49)

Beth Tacular and Phil Moore – a nature-loving, woods-dwelling, earnestly creative pair who comprise two-thirds of indie folk trio Bowerbirds – are not the sort of couple on whom you'd wish calamity. But when the result of broken ribs, serious illness, break-up and reconciliation is an album as gorgeous as this, you half-wish the hardships keep coming. Their songs on this, their third record, are more expansive, bolder and stranger than those that have come before: like life, they're also messy and loosely formed, swelling and subsiding in ways that sound both slapdash and irresistibly serendipitous.