The Low Anthem, fresh off a multi-set stop at the Bonnaroo festival in Manchester, Tennessee, this weekend—whose performances the Wall Street Journal called "moving," Pop Matters described as "one of the most pleasant surprises" of the event, and which left Spinner to declare the trio "one of the true breakout bands at Bonnaroo this year"—are in New York City to celebrate last week's release of their Nonesuch debut, Oh My God, Charlie Darwin, with a performance at the Bowery Ballroom tonight. The Observer Music Monthly gives the album four stars, exclaiming, "it soars, the title track especially"; Paste's Josh Jackson calls it "one of my favorite albums this year."

New York Times music critic Jon Pareles describes the tunes that make up the album as "hushed and folky," save for a few stomps on the album, which, for all their rocking out, keep with the album's overall lyrical sensibility, "still muse over metaphysical enigmas."

Pareles returns to those hushed tunes, which make up the majority of the album, stating, "[T]he quieter the music gets, in an elegy like 'To Ohio' or a conditional reassurance like '(Don’t) Tremble,' the more its music inhabits its own otherworldly place, where ghosts and angels hover just out of view."

Read the complete review at nytimes.com.

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The band gave Time Out New York a sneak peek at tonight's show in New York by performing a few tunes live on The Frying Pan, a rustic old barge anchored off Manhattan's Chelsea Pier on the Hudson River. You can watch three exclusive video performances from The Low Anthem aboard ship at www3.timeoutny.com.

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For further tour information, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.