Shearwater's Animal Joy is our Album Of The Week, and today the band came through with the video for album standout "Breaking The Yearlings," a clip that finds Jonathan Meiburg hallucinating inside a…   Read Story »

Shearwater's last three albums, the ones that brought the Austin band to prominence, all made up parts of a loose overarching concept-album trilogy, one that had something to do with islands and…   Read Story »

Shearwater's new album is out next week, and we've already heard three quite-nice takes from that affair, "You As You Were," "Breaking The Yearlings" and "Animal Joy." And now, as part of NPR's first…   Read Story »

Animal Joy, the new album from expansive Texan falsetto-indie troupe Shearwater, is imminent, and the songs "Breaking The Yearlings" and "Animal Life" have already made their way to the internet.…   Read Story »

Shearwater's eighth LP Animal Joy -- their first on Sub Pop -- is due out in February, and earlier today a new track from that affair, "Animal Joy," was featured in NPR's 'All Songs Considered'…   Read Story »

Ambitious indie crew Shearwater are on Sub Pop now, and Animal Joy, their first album for the new label, arrives in February. Below, use the widget to download a gorgeous progged-out stomp called…   Read Story »

There were more albums released in 2010 than could fit on all the lists released in 2010. (And there were many lists.) With that in mind, and certain '10 records still ringing in our ears, we put our…   Read Story »

Austin City Limits hosted some of the nicest weather in years alongside an impressive line up with main headliners The Strokes, Muse and the Eagles. Some tough scheduling choices though needed to be…   Read Story »

Blue Water White Death is a collaboration between Shearwater's Jonathan Meiburg and Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart. As might be expected, it's not the most joyous affair ... though it is pretty. Meiburg and…   Read Story »

The Golden Archipelago, which has already birthed two downloadable previews in the soaring "Castaways" and its wind-blown counterpart "Black Eyes," sees its first official video treatment today at…   Read Story »