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Shearwater was formed by two bandmembers of Austin, TX’s Okkervil River. Okkervil’s singer and guitarist, Will Sheff, and back-up vocalist and accordion/keyboard player, Jonathan Meiburg formed Shearwater so they could write softer, more folk-influenced music. Band members today include Jonathan Meiburg, Thor Harris, Kim Burke, Jordan Geiger, and Kevin Schneider.
To date, Shearwater has released five full-length albums, ‘The Dissolving Room’, ‘Everybody Makes Mistakes’, ‘Winged Life’, ‘Palo Santo’ and ‘Rook’ as well as an EP entitled Thieves and a split album with Okkervil River entitled Sham Wedding/Hoax Funeral.
Beginning at some point in 2005, Will Sheff lessened his role in the band. Jonathan Meiburg wrote the entirety of Palo Santo. As a biologist, Jonathan has a particular perspective. The songs of Palo Santo were partly written at the Galápagos Islands in the footsteps of Charles Darwin. And he evolves with beautiful ‘pictures’ of nature at Rook.
To date, Shearwater has released five full-length albums, ‘The Dissolving Room’, ‘Everybody Makes Mistakes’, ‘Winged Life’, ‘Palo Santo’ and ‘Rook’ as well as an EP entitled Thieves and a split album with Okkervil River entitled Sham Wedding/Hoax Funeral.
Beginning at some point in 2005, Will Sheff lessened his role in the band. Jonathan Meiburg wrote the entirety of Palo Santo. As a biologist, Jonathan has a particular perspective. The songs of Palo Santo were partly written at the Galápagos Islands in the footsteps of Charles Darwin. And he evolves with beautiful ‘pictures’ of nature at Rook.
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Winged Life
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Thieves
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Palo Santo
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Whipping Boy
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An Accident
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The World In 1984
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Shoutbox
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goldencore666 wrote:
anytime...amazing!!!
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northerninuit wrote:
best band in the world
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Bananasaur wrote:
I'm so excited!
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nicoinfurs wrote:
holy shit holy shit, this is going to be so good, check out a new song performed live: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pghDwXNsC5g and the awesome video on the link posted below, can't wait for this
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Anorak2008 wrote:
New Album on February 23 in North America and February 15 in the rest of the world. http://matadorrecords.com/ AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
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Hnansen wrote:
Great band.
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TheHochhaus wrote:
very.
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TheHochhaus wrote:
How great is this band?
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lastfmrolodex wrote:
if you like this band please join: http://www.last.fm/group/riigo%27s+opinions+appreciation+group
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zvyagir1 wrote:
Falling in love with this band.
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TheHochhaus wrote:
wherever
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ProzacForRichie wrote:
I envy you. You can listen this marvellous music live. They are really fantastic in night cities through headphones.
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Pinchy_Lobster wrote:
Their show last night was the most beautiful I've ever seen. The records are good, but live they are outstanding.
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Vojta_deexs wrote:
Great gig in Ghent! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRPn0fhDwWI ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGpSL-oUgIQ
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Lyrradsemaj wrote:
Mark Hollis has a little brother and his name is Jonathan Meiburg. Rook is great.
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smiddy012 wrote:
some very beautiful music
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TheHochhaus wrote:
great tension
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insomniana wrote:
their show this may in Amsterdam was the best concert i've ever been to. it's been four months and I still live in that feeling
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ifeltyourshape wrote:
They're really one of the best live bands you'll ever see. Meiburg's voice in person is unfathomably beautiful.
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baeblemusic wrote:
Shearwater rolls their way through a track by track rendition of their latest album Rook at NYC's Florence Gould Auditorium. Watch it all here: http://www.baeblemusic.com/concertvideo/FlorenceGould/Shearwater.html
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Events
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Feb
17
Shearwater
Melkweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Feb
18
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Botanique, Brussels, Belgium
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Feb
19
La Route du Rock - Collection Hiver
L'Omnibus, Saint-Malo, France
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| 12 attendees
News
Gearing Up
4 Oct 2009 | from www.shearwatermusic.com/newsfront
Back from Europe (where sound man Phil Jones snapped the above photo in the park across from the Luminaire in London), and we've been putting the finishing touches on the album and artwork. …
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Men otemjej rej ilo bein anij
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TGA Recording at PHF
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JM and Thor Lecture Series Apr 22 and 24
13 Apr 2009 | from www.shearwatermusic.com/newsfront
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Recent Activity
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charallan, ghitoro, herseaoflove and 2 other people added Shearwater to their libraries. 2 hours ago
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zvyagir1 added Shearwater to the lineup of Shearwater at The Freebutt. yesterday morning
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SalivatingPony tagged Shearwater with ‘folk’. yesterday morning
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SalivatingPony and folkartists added Shearwater to their libraries. yesterday morning
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akzidenzabsurd wrote about Shearwater in Concerts I can remember.... Wednesday evening
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kathartie, fuckin_amal, embeep86 and 9 other people added Shearwater to their libraries. Wednesday evening
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kotsa200 unlinked Shearwater from Stereophonics at Ancienne Belgique. Tuesday afternoon
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kotsa200 unlinked Shearwater from WHY? at Botanique. Monday evening
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kotsa200 added Shearwater to the lineup of WHY? at Botanique. Monday evening
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