Catch both acts at:
Tuesday 11/2 – Birmingham, AL – The Bottletree
Wednesday 11/3 – Tallahassee, FL – The Engine Room
Thursday, 11/4 – Orlando, FL – The Social
Friday 11/5 – Atlanta, GA – The Earl
Saturday 11/6 – Chapel Hill, NC – Local 506
Sunday 11/7 – Charlottesville, VA – The Southern
Tuesday 11/9 – Washington, DC – Rock N Roll Hotel
Wednesday 11/10 – Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s
Thursday – 11/11 – Boston, MA – The Middle East Downstairs
Friday 11/12 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall Of Williamsburg
Saturday 11/13 – Pittsburgh, PA – Thunderbird Cafe
Sunday 11/14 – Detroit, MI – The Magic Stick
Tuesday 11/16 – Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall
Thursday 11/18 – St. Louis, MO – Duck Room
Friday 11/19 – Lawrence, KS – The Jackpot
Saturday 11/20 – Norman, OK – The Opolis
Read my review of Shearwater @ NYC’s Bowery Ballroom here.
MP3: Damien Jurado – Arkansas
Fucking brilliant! 10/10. The Golden Archipelago is available now.
View more photos & download a Shearwater tune AFTER THE JUMP…
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3/27 (SATURDAY) @ Bowery Ballroom.
Wanna attend with a guest?
If so, then e-mail us ASAP!
A winner will be randomly chosen on 3/25 @ NOON.
Watch ‘Hidden Lakes’ here.
MP3: Shearwater – Black Eyes
Our new guest blogger, Jordon Chiarelli, shares his thoughts on the album. Later this month, Shearwater will release The Golden Archipelago on Matador, their sixth LP since their inception, and the third in a series of theme linked albums (the first two being 2006′s Palo Santo and Rook in 2008). The Golden Archipelago is Shearwater’s most accomplished work to date fusing soft melodies with an array of instruments. Taking in a host of worldly sounds and influences, Archipelago begins with a tribal chant which then melts into a soft acoustic ballad, ‘Meridian’, and so begins a groovy journey along the coastal lines of a far-away paradise. Songs such as ‘Black Eyes’, the first single, and ‘Corridors’ go in a different direction than the album’s beginnings, taking a quicker up-tempo composition, which is almost Flaming Lips esque. The latter half of the record calms down, intertwining folk structures – blending piano and even a string section such as ‘Runners…’ (a personal favorite) and the slow, almost salsa dance-inspiring, ‘An Insular Life’. After the epic, Pink Floyd influenced ‘Uniforms’, the album ends with the warm aubade, ‘Missing…’, naturally bringing the LP full circle to the soft touch that kicked it all off. It takes its listener on a journey of the world, celebrating existence and our linkages to everything within it.
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MP3s: Shearwater – Black Eyes & Shearwater – Castaways
Brace yourselves for The Golden Archipelago.
It’ll see daylight on 2/23/2010.
In February, Shearwater dropped by WXPN.
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MP3: Shearwater – Rooks
Yesterday’s set included:
“Leviathan, Bound”
“Snow Leopard”
“Rooks”
Enjoy the full playback here.
Shearwater recently covered Clinic’s ‘Tomorrow’.
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MP3: Shearwater – Rooks
Enjoy last week’s superb take on ‘Tomorrow’ below. MP3 at bottom of post.
MP3: Shearwater – Rooks
