Coming Soon: Shearwater @ the Parish

Shearwater will be at the Parish on May 7 to support the release of their latest full-length, The Golden Archipelago (February 23).

The Golden Archipelago is a vast, groundbreaking work for Jonathan Meiburg and his band. The new songs find the group extending beyond majestic soundscapes and into more gritty, toe-tapping rock songs. Though Meiburg's unmistakable voice and the mystic vibes are still in tact, songs like "Corridors" prove that the group isn't confined to one sound. The Golden Archipelago is "the third panel of a triptych that includes 2006’s enigmatic Palo Santo and 2008’s acclaimed Rook, albums linked by themes of environmental and personal decay and humans’ impact on nature. In The Golden Archipelago, Shearwater turn to a portrait of life on islands - a world of alternating lushness and austerity, numinous silences and sudden cataclysms, and the strange flowerings of plant, animal, and human life that only arise in isolation."

Tickets go on sale this Saturday, buy them here.

Pre-order The Golden Archipelago now. Order The Golden Dossier, a full-color, 75-page, 8 x 10.5” companion piece to The Golden Archipelago, here.

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