Jet Plane and Oxbow
For Shearwater's third Sub Pop LP, Jonathan Meiburg cuts closer to big-bombast '80s rock than anything this band has achieved yet. This time, they are assisted by one of the best arranger/composers in the business in Brian Reitzell.
Shearwater’s 2012 album, Animal Joy, was an exuberant celebration of wildness and wilderness, as well as the band’s most focused effort to date. If Animal Joy and earlier albums looked at the natural world, new release Jet Plane And Oxbow begins to examine its manmade counterpart, both politically and structurally.…
Shearwater look to redefine the roadmaps and look beyond our borders for a less complicated way to live.
The ninth studio LP from the Austin-based outfit, and their second outing for Sub Pop, Jet Plane and Oxbow feels like a culmination of sorts; a rigged explosion in a mountain crevice meant to link past and future.
Hints of stadium-scale bombast are making their mark on the ever-evolving Shearwater sound, with this ninth album their most populist work to date.
Shearwater's most energetic release to date shows the band have come a long way since their sparse, subtle beginnings. On their new album, J...
To signal its new musical direction, Shearwater updated its Facebook page with a photo of a gray DeLorean fitted with a flux capacitor. Nowadays, it seems as if every musician on the planet is time traveling to the 1980s for inspiration.
Brooding with soaring power, Jonanthan Meiburg and Brian Reitzell build a soaring force that is epic without bombast