Shearwater
Onetime Okkervil River side-project takes center stage and goes wide-screen with latest record, Rook.
By Larry Fitzmaurice 06.05.08 10:18 AM
What? After re-releasing a re-mastered, re-jiggered edition of 2006's disquieting Palo Santo on new label home Matador last year, dramatic indie rockers Shearwater drop their exquisite fifth record, Rook, this week.
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Shearwater, 'Rook' (Matador)
Sensitive Texans aren’t quite as fragile as they appear.
By Jon Young 06.02.08 5:36 PM
No longer a cloistered chamber-folk band, Shearwater follows the startling variety of 2006’s Palo Santo with their even more stimulating fifth album. While Jonathan Meiburg’s uneasy high quaver has always generated the kind of simmering intensity that made Jeff Buckley so gripping and unnerving, canny tonal shifts give his introspective songs a bristling, heightened urgency.
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