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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?Originally conceived as a one-off collaboration between Okkervil River's Will Sheff and Kingfisher's Jonathan Meiburg, Shearwater continues the tradition of detailed, reflective songwriting set by classic artists like Nick Drake and Leonard Cohen and contemporary indie rock songwriters such as Bill Callahan and Will Oldham. The group began after Sheff and Meiburg had known each other for just a week with the idea that the duo wanted to make an album called The Dissolving Room. The pair exchanged son   [ 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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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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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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