Palo Santo
Sensory Projects
INDIE
- 'Palo Santo' is the fourth album by SHEARWATER, and undoubtably their
most startling collection of songs to date. Released on SENSORY PROJECTS
- home of PIVOT.
- Singer and songwriter JONATHAN MEIBURG formed Shearwater in 2001 along
with OKKERVIL RIVER frontman WILL SHEFF, as an outlet for the quieter songs
on which the two were working. But it wasn't long before Shearwater turned
into something else. 'Palo Santo' is the first Shearwater record in which
Meiburg is handling lead vocal duties on his own, and his empassioned expressionism
is as much overwhelming as it is potent.
- Each of the songs resonates with desperation, the most immediate example
of this being the album's magnetic opening track, "La dame et la Licorne",
its introspective energies are offset by the rousing "Red Sea, Black
Sea" and later, "Johnny Viola": the former owing much to the
classic, slanted Americana pop of R.E.M and the latter, THE REPLACEMENTS.
- UNCUT (((( "Like Devendra Banhart or Iron & Wine, Shearwater
are capable of emotional resonance through the most brittle of arrangements.
Stunning"... TIME OUT "Shearwater has devised a genre unto itself...they
create soundscapes of remorse and the mundane, perfect for windswept winter
mornings and shimmering summer days" ... MOJO "..mixes country
and pop, sadness and beauty, into one singularly enthralling whole" ...
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La Dame Et La Licorne
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Red Sea Black Sea
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03 |
White Waves
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Palo Santo
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Seventy Four Seventy Five
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06 |
Nobody
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07 |
Sing Little Birdie
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Johnny Viola
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09 |
Failed Queen
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10 |
Hail Mary
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11 |
Going Is Song
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