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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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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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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In 2007 Shearwater made the jump from Misra to Matador, culminating in a generously stocked reissue of 2006's excellent Palo Santo. It was a fitting partnership, as the band was beginning to settle into a more eclectic, rock-oriented outfit, raising the bar for its forthcoming "official" Matador debut. At just over 36 minutes, Rook is tailor-made for the dwindling attention span of the information age, but if ever the dated phrase "all killer, no filler" were to apply, it would be here. {$   [ read more ]

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