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  First Spin: Hear Shearwater's Driving New Single 'Breaking the Yearlings'

  December 5, 2011 – Fans of Shearwater's languid and proggy albums on Matador will barely recognize the group now, because somewhere on their way to new home Sub Pop, the band discovered how to rock out. …
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  New Albums from Alkaline Trio & 5 More!

  February 23, 2010 – Here's a rundown of the essential albums available online and in record stores today: Alkaline Trio, This AddictionMoody Warped Tour vets downsize, reanimate. Read Review >> Shout Out Louds, WorkNü-romantics go for even gloomier jangle. Read Review >> Shearwater, The Golden ArchipelagoSit right down and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a... …
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• Shearwater, 'The Golden Archipelago' (Matador)

  February 15, 2010 – With Jonathan Meiburg's luxuriant, lachrymose croon topping the slow-cresting violins of this tasteful rock ensemble, The Golden Archipelago will surely satisfy listeners in need of a melodramatic nap. Anyone looking for waking thrills, though, will need to consult the album's 72-page "dossier," which nestles lyrics among documentation of the white race's exploration, colonization, and eventual nuclear detonation of the South Pacific. …
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  Shearwater

  June 5, 2008 – 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. Led by former Okkervil River member Jonathan Meiburg, Shearwater specialize in heavily instrumented, moody rock accentuated by Meiburg's astoundingly versatile vocal range. …
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• Shearwater, 'Rook' (Matador)

  June 2, 2008 – 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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