Provided to youtube by beggars group uniforms shearwater the golden archipelago. Shearwater the golden archipelago sub pop mega mart. Barring this relatively inconsequential complaint, the golden archipelago finds shearwater primed to take their rightful place in the upper echelon of contemporary indie pop. The golden archipelago amazon exclusive edition by. The golden archipelago concluded the bands island arc trilogy, a project also encompassing palo santo and rook. Beginning in 2005, sheff lessened his role in the band, leaving meiburg as the band. Shearwater the golden archipelago 2010, cd discogs. 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 shearwaters most visual. Palo santo, rook and the golden archipelago, all of which can be arty and graceful or rugged and bombastic in any given moment. 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. The first pressing of the cd includes a 50page booklet with lyrics, as well as collected photographs from the golden dossier. On november 6, 2010, the band released an instrumental album, shearwater is enron, via bandcamp. It allows you to download and manage your dive logs and also update the firmware on your shearwater dive computers.
Shearwater deleted is raising funds for shearwater the golden archipelago limited edition dossier on kickstarter. 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. The first video from shearwaters 2010 album the golden archipelago directed and edited by alma harel. By justin wood there is a thickness in the air on shearwaters new album the golden archipelago. Based on the golden archipelago, shearwater are perfectly served by the medium. Shearwater downloads dive computer dive log software. Provided to youtube by beggars group castaways shearwater the golden archipelago. The golden archipelago succeeds more often than it fails, and it only fails when cast in the shadow of its predecessor. Theyve got a very mature chest beating sound to their richly textured. In spite of its many atypically structured pieces, the golden archipelago nonetheless features many of shearwaters strongest and most accessible songs.
For singersongwriter jonathan meiburg, this ghostly aura is owed to the spiritual. Sheerwater, the golden archipelago teaser on vimeo1. The first pressing of the cd includes a 50page booklet with lyrics, as well as collected photographs from the. Provided to youtube by beggars group runners of the sun shearwater the golden archipelago. 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. Those ambitions led shearwater to release a mighty trilogy of highconcept albums in recent years. It was released on february 23, 2010, on the matador records label. 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. Its been an exciting six months since the campaign for the new shearwater album smashed all our expectations. 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. Shearwater released the album on both cd and vinyl. The golden archipelago is shearwaters third album for matador. The golden archipelago, an album by shearwater on spotify. The golden archipelago is the sixth studio album by american indie rock band shearwater.
Shearwater is a rather more quietened and nuanced project than okkervil, however, and seems inextricably linked to the natural world. We address four of the key information security challenges confronting organisations today, the challenges of securing applications. 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 is a specialist information security services provider. 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. Shearwater present their upcoming album the golden archipelago with this amazing song that you can download at matador recors, here. The golden archipelago by shearwater released in 2010 via matador.
Shearwater the golden archipelago releases discogs. In order to sync your dives with cloud mobile you have to download shearwater cloud desktop by clicking here. The golden archipelago does not focus on paradise islands or escapism, as the title might imply. The record has just a couple of tracks that would be especially striking outside of their context on the lp. The track black eyes is the first single from the album. 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. Features song lyrics for shearwaters the golden archipelago album. The new record is the third panel of a triptych that includes 200. If anything trips this album up, itll likely be that the tracks, taken individually, dont do justice to. The golden archipelago matador it introduces the theme of island life, the most satisfying chapter yet in texan indie band shearwaters explorations of the natural world. Shearwater desktop links your desktop computer to your shearwater dive computer. If anything trips this album up, itll likely be that the tracks, taken individually, dont do justice to the whole.
The aforementioned meridian is the first of a flawless run of four on the albums first half, continuing with the heavier rocking black eyes, which oddly recalls a less synth. 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. Shearwater share the golden archipelago details, new song. This is sheerwater, the golden archipelago teaser on vimeo 1 by reijnders producties on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love. Cooper shearwater 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. Still, shearwater have vision they are indeed the lone voice of lofty, melodramatic, and undeniably beautiful progressive rock for the mp3 age, and with each record they prove themselves worthy of the graceful, longwinged.
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 black eyes shearwater the golden archipelago. The golden archipelago is the third album in a triptych of mindblowingly. Shearwater research designs and manufactures technical dive computers and electronic control systems for. Anybody who has heard shearwater before particularly on their last album, the solid rooks will not be surprised by the type of music found on the golden archipelago. Shearwaters golden archipelago sounds mighty familiar. Shearwaters delicate, dramatic new album, the golden archipelago.
This time singersongwriter jonathan meiburg turns his attention to life on islands a world of lushness and austerity, silence and sudden cataclysms. Powerful simple reliable 2020 shearwater research unit 250, 155 delf place, richmond, bc v6v 2a2, canada tel 604. The flow of the golden archipelago is incredible, working as an entirely cohesive unit, forcing the listener to become familiar with the record before reaping its rewards. Former okkervil river band member and wellknown bird lover hes an ornithologist, jonathan meiburg, has returned to his shearwater project for the bands seventh or eighth if counting shearwater is enron album, and it feels like a new beginning of sorts.
Shearwater follows a new direction that will make you rejoice. Shearwater desktop downloads dive log desktop software. A couple weeks ago, we told you that the new shearwater album, the golden archipelago, is coming out february 23 in north america and february 15. 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. 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. Golden archipelago by shearwater this album is good if your into mellow.
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. Cd comes packaged with a 50 page perfectbound book that is a dossier of records, photos, regulations and images collected by shearwaters jonathan meiburg. Provided to youtube by beggars group an insular life shearwater the golden archipelago. Instead, while there is a beauty captured here, this is an album of onslaughts. Shearwaters jonathan meiburg and designer mark ohe created a deluxe 75page dossier of exotic images and documents to accompany sws new album. Numerous acts have plied similar waters in recent years fine offerings from bowerbirds, midlake and andrew bird spring to mind, but with the golden archipelago, shearwater really go for broke a limited run of meiburgassembled dossiers were even made available, illuminating its. Listen free to shearwater the golden archipelago meridian, black eyes and more.