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Shearwater share “Slugs In The Marigolds”, the third single from “The New World”, and it’s a side of the band we’ve not heard before: slinky and carefree. Beginning mid-stride, as if caught playing in an empty warehouse, it lets Doug Wieselman’s casually beautiful saxophone summon the ghost of Roxy Music, the loose, sunny feeling playing against a darker lyric.

Shearwater announce their new album “The New World,” due July 31st via their own Polyborus label in partnership with Secretly Distribution. Jonathan Meiburg’s long-running outfit shares singles “More and More” and “Daydream Unbeliever,” with the latter, accompanied by a video Meiburg filmed and edited during research in Antarctica, billows out with classic Shearwater grandeur — soaring strings, a gong smashed by Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart.

Shearwater share video for new single ‘Laguna Seca’, taken from their forthcoming new album The Great Awakening. Plus, news on their contribution to the hugely collaborative Birdsong Project.

Daniel Knox has announced his first European Tour – His latest release features his powerful and unique baritone with an array of brass, strings, synthesizers, his usual band, and guest contributions from Brett Sparks (The Handsome Family) and Thor Harris (Bill Callahan, Swans, Shearwater).

Our Song of the Day is from Shearwater who perform the traditional folk song ‘Black Is The Colour’. Plus we have news on their UK & European tour and a new album release.

Our Song of the Day is from Shearwater’s new album Fellow Travelers. This is their cover of Fucked Up Life by The Baptist Generals.

Shearwater release their new album ‘Fellow Travelers’ next month on Sub Pop, an album of covers which Jonathan Meiburg said is their best album so far. Get a taste…

Shearwater’s latest release ‘Animal Joy’ has been marked as a re-birth of an artist by their new label Sub Pop Records.

Shearwater release live album: Island Arc trilogy. Frontman, Jonathan Meiburg, releases new EP and the band sign to Sub Pop, they start work on a new album shortly. Listen now and watch a great documentary.

Shearwater have just arrived back home for a few days after their tours of Europe, South by Southwest, and the eastern US and Canada, and they report back to say are enjoying a lush, rainy spring in Austin.

Shearwater frontman Jonathan Meiburg insists that you don’t need a PhD to love his band’s new full-length, The Golden Archipelago. Sure, it was inspired by a yearlong trek around remote islands like the Falklands, Tierra del Fuego, the Galapagos and New Zealand’s Chatham Islands.

An explorer, ecologist, and folk hero, Jonathan Meiburg is the Jacques Cousteau of indie-rock. A former graduate student with a specialty in geography and ornithology, the Shearwater frontman named both his Austin, Texas-based band and their critically-acclaimed 2008 album Rook after types of birds, and his gorgeously pastoral music examines nature with a scientist’s eye.