Album Cover: Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago

More news about Shearwater's upcoming album The Golden Archipelago. We now have a full tracklist as well as another fantastic cover. If you haven't heard their last album, Rook, I recommend you do. It came out last year and was very rocky. Much more than Will Sheff's other project, Okkervil River. They're playing Europe in February, but no Irish date, alas. You can download lead single 'Castaways' as an mp3 below.

Tracklist:
01 Meridian
02 Black Eyes
03 Landscape at Speed
04 Hidden Lakes
05 Corridors
06 God Made Me
07 Runners of the Sun
08 Castaways
09 An Insular Life
10 Uniforms
11 Missing Islands

Download:
Shearwater - 'Castaways'

Album News: Shearwater - The Golden Archipelago

I usually don't like October-November, there's hardly any new albums released in the run-up to Christmas (except compilations), and thus hardly any album news. But then, there's always Year End Lists and then new albums for next year.

One of these 2010 albums is Shearwater's latest, The Golden Archipelago. Shearwater leader Jonathan Meiburg had this to say about the record, due in February or March: “There are a lot more BIG-sounding drums on this record, and overall I’d say it’s woolier and spookier than Rook but also more extroverted. It sounds more like a band playing than some of our previous albums, I think, and it’s a bit more messy and exuberant.”

Some of the working song titles include “Meridian,” “Missing Islands,” “Landscape at Speed,” “Woolgathering,” and “Hidden Lakes.”

I cannot wait.