The Golden Archipelago

Shearwater does Shearwater pretty well on The Golden Archipelago

To be honest, at this point in their career, I’m not expecting anything particularly earth-shattering from Shearwater. Figuratively, that is. I don’t expect them to toy with their awesome, awesome formula too much, and on The Golden Archipelago, they deliver. Literally, I want Shearwater’s music to shatter earth, every sustained falsetto from Jonathan […]

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[MP3] Shearwater: "Black Eyes"

Another new Shearwater track from the upcoming full length The Golden Archipelago surfaced today, again courtesy of Matablog (Matador Records’ own blog). We featured “Castaways” when it was made available to the public, which showed tremendous promise for the new record with its lush instrumentation as a teaser. This time though, “Black Eyes” […]

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[MP3] Shearwater: “Castaways”

File in the “awesome” category: Shearwater just provided us with a new mp3 off their forthcoming sixth full-length, The Golden Archipelago. Created as a side project of Okkervil River members Will Sheff and Jonathan Meiburg, Shearwater is a heavier, folksier version of Okkervil River. Imagine that. Meiburg’s vocals are a standout on Shearwater’s […]