Shearwater
Shearwater
Genres: folk, indie, indie rock, Alt-country, indie folk
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About Shearwater
Shearwater is an American indie rock band from Austin, Texas, led by multi-instrumentalist and lead singer Jonathan Meiburg The band was formed by two members of Okkervil River, back-up vocalist and accordion/keyboard player Jonathan Meiburg and singer and guitarist Will Sheff, so they could write quieter songs. Beginning in 2005, Sheff lessened his role in the band, leaving Meiburg as the band's songwriter from Palo Santo on. Band members today include Jonathan Meiburg, Thor Harris, Kim Burke, Lucas Oswald, with many contributions from others. The touring band in 2012 featured producer/drummer Danny Reisch and guitarist/vocalist Mitch Billeaud of The Lemurs and Christiaan Mader of Brass Bed. To date, Shearwater has released nine full-length albums The Dissolving Room, Everybody Makes Mistakes, Winged Life, Palo Santo, Rook, The Golden Archipelago, Animal Joy, and Jet Plane & Oxbow as well as EPs Thieves and The Snow Leopard, and a split LP with Okkervil River entitled Sham Wedding/Hoax Funeral, as well as an album of covers of former touring partners, Fellow Travelers, released in November 2013. As an ornithologist and writer, Meiburg has a unique perspective. The songs of Palo Santo were partly written at the Galápagos Islands in the footsteps of Charles Darwin. Rook was influenced by studies in the Falklands Islands and by the current mass extinction we are living through. The Golden Archipelago examined the destruction of island cultures in the 20th century and beyond. Animal Joy returned to more personal concerns; Meiburg stated repeatedly in interviews that the foundational idea is that life is most real when "the blood flows fastest and closest to the surface." Fellow Travelers started as a small home EP and expanded into a full album celebrating relationships with the other bands they've met along the way.
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Shearwater — Top 30 songs of 38
| Artist | Song title | Like / Dislike | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shearwater | There goes the sun | ||
| Shearwater | Filaments | ||
| Shearwater | On The Death Of The Waters | ||
| Shearwater | The Snow Leopard | ||
| Shearwater | You as You Were | ||
| Shearwater | I Was a Cloud | ||
| Shearwater | You as You Were | ||
| Shearwater | Century Eyes | ||
| Shearwater | Xenarthran | ||
| Shearwater | Quiet Americans | ||
| Shearwater | Whipping Boy | ||
| Shearwater | You As You Were | ||
| Shearwater | Hush | ||
| Shearwater | [Reco] Breaking The Yearlings | ||
| Shearwater | Prime | ||
| Shearwater | Stop Draggin' My Heart Around (Feat. Sharon Van Etten) | ||
| Shearwater | Backchannels | ||
| Shearwater | Red Sea Black Sea | ||
| Shearwater | Breaking the Yearlings | ||
| Shearwater | Glass Bones | ||
| Shearwater | My Good Deed | ||
| Shearwater | The Hunter's Star | ||
| Shearwater | Black Eyes, from the 2010 album `The Golden Archipelago` | ||
| Shearwater | A Long Time Away | ||
| Shearwater | Radio silence | ||
| Shearwater | Laguna Seca | ||
| Shearwater | La Dame Et La Licorne | ||
| Shearwater | On The Death Of Waters | ||
| Shearwater | Palo Santo | ||
| Shearwater | Prime, from the 2016 album `Jet Plane And Oxbow` |