The Golden Archipelago

VINYL FORMAT. The LP contains two bonus tracks and an MP3 download coupon (that includes the album and a PDF of the fifty page dossier available with the CD version)! The Golden Archipelago is the third album in a triptych of mindblowingly beautiful, dense and ambitious excursions about man's impact on the natural world from Austin's Shearwater. This time singer-songwriter Jonathan Meiburg turns his attention to life on islands - a world of lushness and austerity, silence and sudden cataclysms. From rising sea levels to displaced populations, Meiburg travels from the Falklands to Madgascar, from the Bikini Atoll to the Tierra Del Fuego. The music matches the grandeur and melancholy of its subject matter. This is a true album in the larger sense of the word. Meiburg's soaring vocals and complex song structures recall opuses like Kate Bush's "Hounds Of Love," Hüsker Dü's "Zen Arcade" and classic Pink Floyd. The LP (like the CD) is available with a copy of a 50-page perfect-bound book that is a set of extracts from a dossier of records, photos, regulations and images collected by Shearwater's Jonathan Meiburg. The LP also contains two bonus tracks and an MP3 download coupon (that includes the album and a PDF of the dossier).