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Tag Archives: Shearwater
Grizzly Bear – Shields
Sometimes an album just gets right under your skin, becomes one of those things you just can’t stop listening to; an all absorbing passion. How often I have sought out such music, buying albums that promise much all too often … Continue reading
Shearwater – The Cellar Oxford
The fact that Shearwater, purveyors of such monumental and remarkable music, are not simply huge is a continuing mystery to me. There is an upside however (for we cognoscenti at least) in that you can still get to see them … Continue reading
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Tagged Gig, Hospital Ships, Jonathon Meiberg, Julie Doiron, Shearwater, The Appleseed Cast, The Lemurs
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Animal Joy – Shearwater
I have been hopelessly in love with Shearwater for years. Each successive release has me wondering if they can match the last and each time they surpass it. The Golden Archipelago of two years ago was a fabulous album and seeing them … Continue reading
Okkervil River – I am Very Far
Some albums poke you in the eye from the outset; you know what you are getting, and others reveal their beauties only with time and attention. I am Very Far, released through Jagjaguwar Records, does that irritating thing of doing both simultaneously … Continue reading
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Tagged Jagjaguwar, Jonathon Meiberg, Okkervil River, Shearwater, Will Sheff
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Top Albums of 2010
Its almost a truism to say at the end of a year that its been ‘another great year for music’, but 2010 does seem to have been a particularly fertile year. An end-of-year best albums is both a bit trite but also … Continue reading
Blue Water White Death
BWWD Label /Web Shearwater FB / Store /Web /Twitter /FB Xiu Xiu Web / Myspace /FB /Wikipedia Named after a seventies documentary/movie about shark hunting, this collaboration between Jonathon Maier from Shearwater and Jamie Stewart from Xiu Xiu was never … Continue reading
Shearwater – St Bonaventure’s Bristol
It seems an age since I first heard Shearwater on an NPR podcast (what would I do without NPR and the other US public service stations – where’s the UK equivalent?) and tried to get hold of Rook, their second … Continue reading
Shearwater – The Golden Archipelago
This is an exceptionally and sumptuously beautiful album, a worthy successor to the previous album Rooks and the last of the very loose trilogy of Shearwater albums started with Palo Santo. Built around island issues, the maritime theme is in … Continue reading
