Shearwater + David Thomas Broughton

Tuesday 23rd February 2010

Captains Rest, Glasgow

Over 18s only

Shearwater release their latest album The Golden Archipelago on February 15th 2010 through Matador. Shearwater continues the tradition of detailed, reflective songwriting set by classic artists like Nick Drake and Leonard Cohen and contemporary indie rock songwriters such as Bill Callahan and Will Oldham. The Golden Archipelago is the third album in a triptych of mindblowingly beautiful, dense and ambitious excursions about man's impact on the natural world from Austin's Shearwater. This time singer-songwriter Jonathan Meiburg turns his attention to life on islands - a world of lushness and austerity, silence and sudden cataclysms. From rising sea levels to displaced populations, Meiburg travels from the Falklands to Madgascar, from the Bikini Atoll to the Tierra Del Fuego. The music matches the grandeur and melancholy of its subject matter. This is a true album in the larger sense of the word. Meiburg's soaring vocals and complex song structures recall opuses like Kate Bush's "Hounds Of Love," Hüsker Dü's "Zen Arcade" and classic Pink Floyd.

www.shearwatermusic.com
www.myspace.com/shearwater

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