Cd comes packaged with a 50 page perfectbound book that is a dossier of records, photos, regulations and images collected by shearwaters jonathan meiburg. This time singersongwriter jonathan meiburg turns his attention to life on islands a world of lushness and austerity, silence and sudden cataclysms. When the rooks were laid in piles by the sides of the road they were crashing into the aerials, tangled in the laundry lines and, gathered in a field, they were burned in a. If anything trips this album up, itll likely be that the tracks, taken individually, dont do justice to the whole.
By shadowing all the darkened fields of forgotten words and civilian lives violence through the changing guards through the grinding away and their furious marching. The new record is the third panel of a triptych that includes 200. I recently got a chance to try the oc version of the shearwater nerd 2. Listen free to shearwater the golden archipelago meridian, black eyes and more. This is sheerwater, the golden archipelago teaser on vimeo1 by reijnders producties on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love. Its the kind of atmosphere that resonates, as if a deep magnetic presence is matching the vocal gusto and the shimmering instrumentals of the band itself. Shearwaters jonathan meiburg and designer mark ohe created a deluxe 75page dossier of exotic images and documents to accompany sws new album. Meiburgs a keen ornithologist hence the band name and with the golden archipelago wraps up a trilogy of albums drawing themes from the impact human beings have had on the environment. Shearwater is an american indie rock band from austin, texas, led by multiinstrumentalist and lead singer jonathan meiburg the band was formed by two members of okkervil river, backup vocalist and accordionkeyboard player jonathan meiburg and singer and guitarist will sheff, so they could write quieter songs. On november 6, 2010, the band released an instrumental album, shearwater is enron, via bandcamp.
Theyve got a very mature chest beating sound to their richly textured. Shearwater desktop downloads dive log desktop software. The golden archipelago, an album by shearwater on spotify. Subscribe to entries all content 2020 by shearwater site questions.
While their records have always been packaged in beautiful cases illustrated by watercolours or drawings of various species frontman jonathan meiburg is a welldocumented birdwatcher and. Thanks for these 30 minutes of peace amid the chaos were experiencing. The golden archipelago concluded the bands island arc trilogy, a project also encompassing palo santo and rook. Felipe ahumada maybe you should be the only person in the world who knows how to translate the winter into a song. Three months into working on the golden archipelago, the new album by shearwater, the groups vocalist, guitarist and songwriter, jonathan meiburg, listened to a recording of the bikini atoll national anthem on the internet. On january 15, 2011, shearwater presented the three albums of their thematicallylinked island arc trilogy palo santo, rook, and the golden archipelago in a soldout, 3hour epic concert with longtime friends and collaborators at austins central presbyterian church. The album was recorded in the spring of 2010 and includes live material recorded at a performance under the pseudonym enron. See, the golden archipelago is shearwater s most visual project yet. The golden archipelago amazon exclusive edition by. Shearwater is a rather more quietened and nuanced project than okkervil, however, and seems inextricably linked to the natural world.
The golden archipelago is the third album in a triptych of mindblowingly beautiful, dense and ambitious excursions about mans impact on the natural world from austins shearwater. Provided to youtube by beggars group false sentinel shearwater the golden archipelago. Check out the golden archipelago amazon exclusive edition by shearwater on amazon music. Beginning in 2005, sheff lessened his role in the band, leaving meiburg as the band. The golden archipelago is the sixth studio album by american indie rock band shearwater. Based on the golden archipelago, shearwater are perfectly served by the medium.
The golden archipelago is the third album in a triptych of mindblowingly. While their records have always been packaged in beautiful cases illustrated by watercolours or drawings of various species frontman jonathan meiburg is a welldocumented birdwatcher and voyager, for this album they went the extra mile. It allows you to download and manage your dive logs and also update the firmware on your shearwater dive computers. If youve visited shearwaters website over the last couple of months, youll have been greeted by an arresting, scratchilyfilmed series of images of mist over mountains, damaged flags and roiling seawaters. Its fitting that shearwater conceived their latest album, the golden archipelago, as an escape fantasy about life on an isolated island, considering how insular the group has become. The golden archipelago, a toothy, epic examination of island life, both physical and metaphysical, is enigmatic to say the least the deluxe edition includes a massive sepiatone 75page dossier that could have easily served as the foundation for an episode of abcs lost, but it lacks the magic of rooks more muscular moments. Listening to the golden archipelago, youll realize that the last three shearwater albums really are all one big movement. The record has just a couple of tracks that would be especially striking outside of their context on the lp. 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 bands most absorbing and accomplished work to date. The golden archipelago by shearwater, released 23 february 2010 1.
The first pressing of the cd includes a 50page booklet with lyrics, as well as collected. It was released on february 23, 2010, on the matador records label. As contradictory a phrase that small scale grandeur might be, it seems incredibly apt when listening to the band. Missing islands recorded and mixed at sonic ranch, public hifi and elmwood studios. Shearwater the golden archipelago 2010, cd discogs. Their previous albums contain lyrics that conjure haunting images or clear stories. The best way to describe shearwaters new album the golden archipelago is by using an oxymoron. Provided to youtube by beggars group black eyes shearwater the golden archipelago. Meiburgs voice is a wonder throughout, wonderfully fragile on hidden lakes, tearing it up on corridors. The golden archipelago has much in common with its predecessors palo alto and rook both thematically and musically but an added muscle has been added to provide steel upon which to construct the yearning fragility that has now.
Also, driving that point home is shearwaters departure from matador and signing to sub pop. Whether youre an air, nitrox, multi gas trimix or closed circuit rebreather diver, shearwater offers products which are powerful, simple and reliable. Shearwater research designs and manufactures computers for divers demanding more from themselves and their diving experience. The question facing shearwater upon the release of the third in a trilogy of albums is how to follow up, in rook, what has quietly become somewhat of a defining work. The track black eyes is the first single from the album. Thats where the distinct strength of this album comes through. Sheerwater, the golden archipelago teaser on vimeo1. Shearwater released the album on both cd and vinyl.
Shearwater the golden archipelago sub pop mega mart. They craft music that feels very personal in a wide open field. The golden archipelago is the third in a loose trilogy also comprising 2006s palo santo, and finds meiburg broadly contemplating life on remote islands, many of which hes actually visited. Shearwater desktop links your desktop computer to your shearwater dive computer.
The golden archipelago is shearwaters third album for matador. A calm then, the roaring wall of the eye as we sailed to the world from an insular life from the boughs that had sheltered us all of our. Shearwater present their upcoming album the golden archipelago with this amazing song that you can download at matador recors, here. Shearwaters golden archipelago sounds mighty familiar. Shearwater research rugged dive computers for technical. Features song lyrics for shearwaters the golden archipelago album. The first pressing of the cd includes a 50page booklet with lyrics, as well as collected photographs from the golden dossier. Barring this relatively inconsequential complaint, the golden archipelago finds shearwater primed to take their rightful place in the upper echelon of contemporary indie pop. Facebook twitter instagram tumblr youtube spotify apple music join the mailing list. Since their split from their sister band okkervil river a half decade ago, the group has honed an entirely singular sound, forging grand nature calls around oceanic melodies, elemental percussion and the broken. Provided to youtube by beggars group an insular life shearwater the golden archipelago. Abuse of this feature may prevent future contributions from your account. Meiburg has stated that the bands previous three albums, palo santo, rook, and the golden archipelago, worked as a trilogy and the new album animal joy would be its own separate entity.
Shearwater deleted is raising funds for shearwater the golden archipelago limited edition dossier on kickstarter. Subscribe for recording news, tour announcements, and the occasional exclusive free download. See, the golden archipelago is shearwaters most visual project yet. The song rooks is a master class in doomsday lyricism, and leviathan.
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