I think Birdking was their second best after the amazing debut record - Gilded by the sun, a real milestone in the genre, not one ugly song, and some total classics like "Lord lanking" , "Ljósálfar" and "Blood of the snow".
the sound itself is very very different than most acoustic projects back then, much darker, with a heavy atmosphere, somehow unsettling.
Birdking anyway featured some masperpieces' like Leviathan's "The Lady of the Vanir", which is definitely one of my favourite acoustic tracks ever.
This is possibly one of the last records in the so-called neo-folk realm that I consider perfect.