Tag Archives: Shearwater

Shearwater at the Fleece, with Cross Record

Posted on February 19, 2016 by haymoncollins

Jet Plane and Oxbow may well be the sainted Shearwaters best album yet (although I might have said that before for their other releases!) In many ways it is the record that sounds most like them live, always a soaring … Continue reading →

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Best of Times – My Sad Captains

Posted on May 23, 2014 by haymoncollins

Well if the chance to see Shearwater in Bristol wasn’t enough, I noticed that support was from none other than My Sad Captains. Now I burbled on about these chaps back in 2008 and 2009 but then they rather slipped … Continue reading →

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Albums of 2013

Posted on December 25, 2013 by haymoncollins

Always in two minds about the end of year list, it does never the less prove a useful reminder of what I was listening to when new fancies steal my attention away over the next year. Based purely on the … Continue reading →

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Fellow Travelers – Shearwater

Posted on November 30, 2013 by haymoncollins

Shearwaters music lights up my life in so many ways, I can hardly think of a track they have done that doesn’t find a place with me. Always exquisitely played, with immaculate production, through it all shines the extraordinary voice … Continue reading →

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Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around – Shearwater & Sharon van Etten

Posted on May 26, 2013 by haymoncollins

So here are two of my very favourite musical arteeeests covering that Tom Petty/Stevie Nicks guilty pleasure track. What a nice way to welcome this Sunday. If that isn’t enough SvE is doing this little electronica type project thing seemingly … Continue reading →

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Grizzly Bear – Shields

Posted on September 22, 2012 by haymoncollins

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 →

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Shearwater – The Cellar Oxford

Posted on April 6, 2012 by haymoncollins

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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Animal Joy – Shearwater

Posted on March 1, 2012 by haymoncollins

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 →

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Okkervil River – I am Very Far

Posted on May 12, 2011 by haymoncollins

   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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Top Albums of 2010

Posted on December 21, 2010 by haymoncollins

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 →

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