Thieves

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 dash of Spirit of Eden-Talk Talk and a whole heap of 70s FM pop. Soft rock chamber music if you will... Like Devendra Banhart or Iron & Wine, Shearwater are capable of emotional resonance through the most brittle of arrangements. Stunning.