Shearwater

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Shearwater
Shearwater (2008)
Shearwater (2008)
General information
origin Austin , United States
Genre (s) Indie rock , psychedelic folk , folk rock
founding 2001
Website shearwatermusic.com
Founding members
Jonathan Meiburg
guitar
 Will Sheff (until 2009)
Current occupation
Guitar, vocals
 Jonathan Meiburg
Kimberly Burke
Thor Harris
former members
Howard Draper

Shearwater is an indie rock band formed in Austin , Texas by members Jonathan Meiburg and Will Sheff of the band Okkervil River .

history

Jonathan Meiburg and Will Sheff, who first worked together in the band Okkervil River , founded Shearwater in 2001 to release quiet songs they were working on under that name.

Kimberly Burke played bass for the first time on the band's debut album , The Dissolving Room , and Thor Harris Shearwater joined as drummer a short time later. Thanks to contributions from the multi-instrumentalist Howard Draper and appearances with The Mountain Goats , Akron / Family and Blonde Redhead , the band gained a higher level of awareness. In the further course, Shearwater's music developed and albums such as Everybody Makes Mistakes , Winged Life and Thieves EP were released.

In May 2006, Shearwater released their fourth album, Palo Santo . About a year later, in April 2007, the band released a special edition of Palo Santo under the Matador Records label , which includes bonus material and newly recorded songs from the first release.

Trivia

Jonathan Meiburg studied ornithology . The band's name, Shearwater , is (as Great Shearwater ) in English the name for the great shearwater .

Discography

Albums

  • 2001: The Dissolving Room (Gray Flat)
  • 2002: Everybody Makes Mistakes (Misra Records)
  • 2004: Winged Life (Misra Records)
  • 2006: Palo Santo (Misra Records)
  • 2008: Rook (Matador Records)
  • 2010: The Golden Archipelago (Matador Records)
  • 2012: Animal Joy (Sub Pop)
  • 2013: Fellow Travelers (Sub Pop)
  • 2014: Stay / Novacane (Sub Pop)
  • 2016: Jet Plane and Oxbow (Sub Pop)

Albums in cooperation

  • 2004: Sham Wedding / Hoax Funeral (Jound; in cooperation with the band Okkervil River )

EPs

  • 2005: Thieves (Misra)
  • 2009: The Snow Leopard EP

Web links

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