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 Mitch...   [ read more ]

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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 dru...   [ 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 dash of Spirit of Ede...   [ read more ]

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