SHEARWATER - PALO SANTO (DELUXE EDITION) (180g 2LP)

Austin's Shearwater sign to Matador and debut with a completely refurbished edition of their critically acclaimed--and frankly magnificent--2006 album, 'Palo Santo.' The band have re-recorded 5 of the 11 tracks on the album, plus there is new cover art, and deluxe packaging. On top of all this, the 180 gram RTI-pressed double vinyl release contains an extra track not on the 2CD version.

More important is the music--a soaring, vast multi-instrumental song-cycle. Jonathan Meiburg's vocals and songwriting recall bands as diverse as Roxy Music and Talk Talk. But this is unabashedly ROCK music, anchored by Thor Harris's mighty drums.

"They remain, in parts, as somber still as American Music Club, but now add more than a dash of Spirit Of Eden Talk Talk and a whole heap of '70s FM pop. Soft rock chamber music if you will; like Devendra Banhart or Iron & Wine, Shearwater are capable of emotional resonance through the most brittle of arrangements." - Uncut

Shearwater - Palo SantoTrack Listing

LP 1:
1. La Dame Et La Licome 
2. Red Sea, Black Sea 
3. White Waves 
4. Palo Santo 
5. Seventy-Four, Seventy-Five 
6. Nobody 
7. Sing, Little Birdie 
8. Johnny Viola 
9. Failed Queen 
10. Hail, Mary 
11. Going Is Song 

LP 2:

1. My Only Boy
2. Every Hook, Every Eye
3. Special Rider Blues
4. Sing, Little Birdie
5. Palo Santo
6. Discontinuities
7. Red Sea, Black Sea
8. Failed Queen
9. Lilacs