November 29 street date. 2013RSD2 - Special edition, Limited, black Friday release! Sub Pop labelmates Low and Shearwater each contribute arguably improbable covers of popular songs to this limited-edition Record Store Day/Black Friday 7'' single. After performing a crowd-favorite live version of Rihanna's ''Stay'' at the Pitchfork Music Festival this past July, Low recorded a studio version at Sacred Heart in Duluth, MN. Shearwater recorded their own gauze-wrapped, undulating version of Frank Ocean's ''Novacane'' for this single. This single will benefit Rock for Kids (www.rockforkids.org) on Low's behalf, and the Southern Poverty Law Center (www.splcenter.org/) from Shearwater.
June 10 street date (CD) / July 29 (LP). It's hard not to hear "The Great Awakening", Shearwater's first album in five years, as the record the band has been striving toward for years. It's a journey into the unknown, embracing sorrow and joy, beauty and terror. Over the past five years, bandleader Jonathan Meiburg has stretched out in all directions. Musically, he staged a reconstruction of David Bowie's Berlin Trilogy for WNYC's New Sounds, issuing a set of instrumental albums on Bandcamp, and forming a new band - Loma, who released two albums for Sub Pop - with Texan producer/engineer Dan Duszynski and singer Emily Cross. With Duszynski as a fellow performer and co-producer, "The Great Awakening" evolved through the long months of 2020 and 2021, emerging as a meditation on hope amid hopelessness, and the freedoms to be found (or dreamed about) in isolation. Several Shearwater veterans returned, including keyboardist and arranger Emily Lee and drummer Josh Halpern, but the rock gestures of 2015's Jet Plane And Oxbow" fell away: "The Great Awakening" is a soulful and immersive travelog of grand atmospheres and intimate landscapes, decorated with field recordings from Meiburg's travels and anchored by his closely-recorded voice, more otherworldly and urgent than ever.
Please note new street date for LP: July 29. It's hard not to hear "The Great Awakening", Shearwater's first album in five years, as the record the band has been striving toward for years. It's a journey into the unknown, embracing sorrow and joy, beauty and terror. Over the past five years, bandleader Jonathan Meiburg has stretched out in all directions. Musically, he staged a reconstruction of David Bowie's Berlin Trilogy for WNYC's New Sounds, issuing a set of instrumental albums on Bandcamp, and forming a new band - Loma, who released two albums for Sub Pop - with Texan producer/engineer Dan Duszynski and singer Emily Cross. With Duszynski as a fellow performer and co-producer, "The Great Awakening" evolved through the long months of 2020 and 2021, emerging as a meditation on hope amid hopelessness, and the freedoms to be found (or dreamed about) in isolation. Several Shearwater veterans returned, including keyboardist and arranger Emily Lee and drummer Josh Halpern, but the rock gestures of 2015's Jet Plane And Oxbow" fell away: "The Great Awakening" is a soulful and immersive travelog of grand atmospheres and intimate landscapes, decorated with field recordings from Meiburg's travels and anchored by his closely-recorded voice, more otherworldly and urgent than ever.
February 23 street date. Shearwater continue to explore the beauty, menace, and fragility of the natural world - and that increasingly rare species, the indivisible album - on The Golden Archipelago, the band's most absorbing and accomplished work to date. The album is available in a superdeluxe CD version. The initial CD pressing comes packaged with 50-page perfect-bound book with dossier of records, photos, regulations and images on islands, displaced peoples, immigration records and more - deluxe in slipcase FOR SAME PRICE as regular CD.
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