Shearwater play London’s Field Day Festival tonight as they start a European tour in support of Jet Plane and Oxbow, which was released in January. On the eve of the tour they released this lyric video for ‘Quiet Americans’ to…
On Jet Plane and Oxbow, Shearwater sound a little like a-ha. The more electronic approach, the vocals, the fundamental feeling and structure of the opening tracks sends us back to the mid to late 80s. But their ninth studio album…
Ian Parker, Albums Editor extraordinaire, is uncontested for the title of For Folk’s Sake’s resident physicals enthusiast. While some of us were busy watching Johnny Flynn’s baby singing his dad’s songs or pretending to be this guy, Ian was freezing in…
If you’ve got any budget left from reading parts one and two of the shopping guide, we can help you find a few more ways to spend it in part three. Tift Merritt – Markings | Merritt revisits the title…
Whilst not as dense or treacle-thick as previous Shearwater records, Animal Joy is just as intricately layered, and manages to be peculiarly exhilerating in spite of its persistently shadowy subject matter. Opener ‘Animal Life’ anchors the album’s loose thread of…
Safely installed in his cosy nest, Brian’s been musing on how great his winged neighbours are. Birds are a splendid bunch – lots of them sing (although admittedly with varying levels of success), some of them are darned attractive (Mr…
The All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival is set to welcome a thoroughly eclectic mix of bands to this summer’s two weekend extravaganza in Minehead, including a number of acts that are firm favourites of FFS.
The remit for Shearwater’s live appearance at Rough Trade East was simple: play the new album, “Rook” in its entirety, in order. Unusually for an album exposition, this would take less than 40 minutes. And what splendid minutes they were.
Shearwater are not normal. Not even slightly. The title track of this album (their first since signing to Matador) is an apocalyptic vision of a world where all the birds fall from the sky whilst the people all cower indoors.
Shearwater We Say: Texan folksters doing a splendid line in ethereal art rock. They Say: \\”pastoral prog-folk chaotic celestial mindfuckery\\” Band Members: Jonathan Meiburg, Thor Harris, Kimberly Burke. Alumni: Howard Draper, Will Sheff. Associates: Kevin Schneider, Matthew Barnhart, Mark Sonnabaum,…