VINYL FORMAT. Austin's Shearwater return with the follow-up to "Palo Santo". "Rook" meditates on man's intersection with the natural world; the world after human beings are gone. A dark fairy tale encased in a cycle of songs. Jonathan Meiburg's bold, soaring voice still anchors the songs, which broaden his pastoral prog-folk chaotic celestial mindfuckery into new realms. Beyond the continuing touchstones of late Talk Talk, Nico, and John Cale, there are now allusions to Van Morrison and hints of Joni Mitche   [ read more ]

LP $13.99

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VINYL FORMAT. Austin's Shearwater debut on Matador with a completely refurbished edition of their critically acclaimed 2006 album. They re-recorded five of the eleven tracks and added new cover art, deluxe packaging, plus a bonus LP containing eight additional tracks. The music is a soaring, vast, multi-instrumental song-cycle. The vocals and songwriting recall bands as diverse as Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry and late Talk Talk, but this is unabashedly rock music, anchored by Thor Harris's mighty Bonhamesque drum   [ read more ]

2xLP $17.99

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Austin's Shearwater return with the follow-up to "Palo Santo". "Rook" meditates on man's intersection with the natural world; the world after human beings are gone. A dark fairy tale encased in a cycle of songs. Jonathan Meiburg's bold, soaring voice still anchors the songs, which broaden his pastoral prog-folk chaotic celestial mindfuckery into new realms. Beyond the continuing touchstones of late Talk Talk, Nico, and John Cale, there are now allusions to Van Morrison and hints of Joni Mitchell. All set in   [ read more ]

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Austin's Shearwater return with the follow-up to Palo Santo. Rook meditates on man's intersection with the natural world; the world after human beings are gone. A dark fairy tale encased in a cycle of songs. Jonathan Meiburg's bold, soaring voice still anchors the songs, which broaden his pastoral prog-folk chaotic celestial mindf*ckery into new realms. Beyond the continuing touchstones of late Talk Talk, Nico, and John Cale, there are now allusions to Van Morrison and hints of Joni Mitchell.    [ read more ]

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Austin's Shearwater debut on Matador with a completely refurbished edition of their critically acclaimed 2006 album. They re-recorded five of the eleven tracks and added new cover art, deluxe packaging in the form of a gatefold digipak inside an O-card, plus a bonus CD containing eight additional tracks, all for the price of one CD. The music is a soaring, vast, multi-instrumental song-cycle. The vocals and songwriting recall bands as diverse as Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry and late Talk Talk, but this is unabash   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. A teaser for the upcoming, fantastic Shearwater full length Rook, this limited 7" features the album version of "Rooks" with the otherwise unreleased Talk Talk cover "The Rainbow."

7" $4.16

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Austin's Shearwater debut on Matador with a completely refurbished edition of their critically acclaimed 2006 album. They re-recorded five of the eleven tracks and added new cover art, deluxe packaging in the form of a gatefold digipak inside an O-card, plus a bonus CD containing eight additional tracks, all for the price of one CD. The music is a soaring, vast, multi-instrumental song-cycle. The vocals and songwriting recall bands as diverse as Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry and late Talk Talk, but this is unabash   [ read more ]

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Talk Talk covering early Elton John or Bert Jansch anticipating the Smiths; that's as close as we can get to describing Shearwater's "Winged Life." The truth is, with its elaborate and unconventional arrangements, richly layered production and conscious efforts to not recreate the past, this is a difficult record to pigeonhole. One or two songs on "Winged Life" partake of the somber, restrained delicacy of Shearwater's last two records, but everywhere else the band has loosened up, allowed that delicacy to    [ read more ]

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A song cycle of disappointment and defeat, the second release from Shearwater expands upon the skeletal framework of their debut by adding textural color in the form of vibraphone, pump organ, viola, violin, and drums to the mix of their particularly dejected Americana. The lineup now having officially expanded to include Kim Burke on upright bass and drummer/vibraphonist Thor Harris, the duo of Jonathan Meiburg and Will Robinson Sheff continues to split the songwriting chores equally, wit   [ read more ]

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RESTOCK. Dually led by Will Robinson Sheff and Jonathan Meiburg, Shearwater¹s addictive sound has been compared to Cat Power and Richard Buckner, though their true influences lie slightly further back in time. Everybody Makes Mistakes lovingly attempts to continue the thread of modern songwriter-oriented folk--the thread that ran through such albums as Van Morrison¹s Astral Weeks, Nico¹s Chelsea Girl, Tim Hardin¹s 1 and Lou Reed¹s Berlin. As if these lofty goals are not enough, Shearwater is not the only c   [ read more ]

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The haunting, slow burn of Shearwater's new EP, Thieves, will be the perfect accompaniment for long, lonely winter months ahead. Using a laundry list of instruments such as pump organ, Hammond organ, piano, violin, Wurlitzer, vibraphone, hammer dulcimer, Shearwater's dense sonic moments can envelop you like a warm wool sweater. Thieves is the follow-up to their 2004 full length, Winged Life, the album that Uncut praised, "as somber still as American Music Club, but now add more than a d   [ read more ]

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A shearwater is a sea bird. Jonathan Meiburg, when he's not busy being the world's leading expert on the South American striated caracara (Phalcoboenus australis), or playing keyboards for Okkervil River, is the winsome frontman man for Shearwater, the band. After releasing two beautiful, fragile, often indulgently miserable records, this talented Southwest collective has found a new muse for its third long-player, Winged Life. While the often uncomfortable silences and quivering lower lips ({&"   [ read more ]

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