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Loma Emerges With A Dark, But Hopeful, Song And Video For 'Black Willow'

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All Songs Considered

Loma Emerges With A Dark, But Hopeful, Song And Video For 'Black Willow'

November 15, 2017 • The collaboration paints with darker contours than anything on recent albums by Cross Record or Shearwater, while retaining the depth and confidence of each.

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Tiny Desk

Shearwater: Tiny Desk Concert

November 14, 2008 • We've come up with many excuses to have artists play Tiny Desk Concerts. Usually, it's just an opportunity to bring in artists who haven't gotten as much of our attention as we'd like to give them.

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World Cafe

Shearwater On World Cafe

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April 13, 2016 • Hear the Austin rock band perform songs from its latest album, Jet Plane And Oxbow.

Shearwater On World Cafe

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New Mix: Shearwater, Lily & Madeleine, Eskimeaux, More

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All Songs Considered

New Mix: Shearwater, Lily & Madeleine, Eskimeaux, More

February 9, 2016 • On this week's show: songs of power, protest and passion, including a cut from Shearwater's "angriest" record, and singer Kevin Morby's fervent if exasperated attempt to make sense of police violence.

New Mix: Shearwater, Lily & Madeleine, Eskimeaux, More

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Review: Shearwater, 'Jet Plane And Oxbow'

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First Listen

Review: Shearwater, 'Jet Plane And Oxbow'

January 13, 2016 • Jonathan Meiburg sounds as focused and intense as ever on his band's ninth album, which is full of rock songs that churn and clatter with force, invention and mystery.

First Listen: Shearwater, 'Fellow Travelers'

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First Listen

First Listen: Shearwater, 'Fellow Travelers'

November 17, 2013 • Each of the 10 songs on Fellow Travelers pays tribute to an artist with whom Shearwater has toured. It's fascinating to hear the band function as a skeleton key that opens up the works of Xiu Xiu and Coldplay and St. Vincent alike.

Fellow Travelers

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New Mix: The Beatles, James Blake, Colin Meloy, More

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All Songs Considered

New Mix: The Beatles, James Blake, Colin Meloy, More

November 5, 2013 • On this week's essential mix we share a rare, previously unreleased cut from The Beatles. We also hear how James Blake was inspired to write this year's amazing "Retrograde," cover tunes from Colin Meloy and Shearwater, a new Bee-Gees styled cut from Broken Bells and more.

New Mix: The Beatles, James Blake, Colin Meloy, More

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New Music: Boards Of Canada, Thundercat, More

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New Music: Boards Of Canada, Thundercat, More

May 28, 2013 • Hear a new song by Boards of Canada on this week's All Songs Considered, along with a Sharon Van Etten-Shearwater duet, the funktacular Thundercat, folk singer Laura Veirs and more.

New Music: Boards Of Canada, A Sharon Van Etten-Shearwater Duet, Thundercat, More

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Studio Sessions

Shearwater: Gone to the Birds, Happily

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June 26, 2008 • The Austin-based band, led by a part-time ornithologist, gave its new album a surprisingly appropriate title: Rook. Frontman Jonathan Meiburg and company bring their painstaking, beautiful songcraft (and birding obsessions) to WNYC's studios.

Listen Now: Shearwater at WNYC

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Music Reviews

Shearwater, Journey Back with New Albums

June 3, 2008 • Esquire music critic Andy Langer surveys the week's new CD releases, from Journey, Dr. John, Shearwater, and Weezer.

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Song Of The Day

Shearwater's 'Rooks' a Chiming Pop Charmer

May 23, 2008 • The band's new album is dark and graceful, intermittently rocking, and uniformly excellent, making it an ideal showpiece for a band five albums into its career, yet still largely unknown on a grand scale. Best of all is the sort-of title track "Rooks."

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SXSW Music Festival

South by Southwest: Best Bets and Big Stories

March 15, 2007 • Part industry trade show, part fan feast, Austin's South by Southwest provides one-stop shopping for those looking for music discovery. Preview the four-day music marathon.

South by Southwest: Best Bets and Big Stories

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Best CDs of 2006

Songs of the Year: Top 10 CDs of 2006

December 25, 2006 • Song of the Day editor Stephen Thompson listened to thousands of albums in 2006 before settling on these 10 frequently overlooked favorites.

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Song Of The Day

Telling Tales of Stormy Seas

April 5, 2006 • Led by bird scientist Jonathan Meiburg, who performs double-duty in the alt-folk band Okkervil River, Shearwater finds inspiration both in nature and in albums by Brian Eno and Talk Talk. A two-headed monster, Shearwater is part sorrowful folk ensemble, part noisier Americana outfit.

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First Listen

First Listen: Shearwater, 'Animal Joy'

February 5, 2012 • Shearwater's songs about man's relationship with nature boom and swoop with epic grace and grandeur. The new Animal Joy pairs singer Jonathan Meiburg's brainy proclamations with brawny, searching arrangements.

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Live in Concert

Shearwater In Concert

June 15, 2008 • Led by the breathtaking falsetto of singer Jonathan Meiburg, Shearwater plays dramatic songs that are at once majestic and intimate. The Austin band brings this sonic thrill ride to Washington, D.C., for a full concert, webcast live on NPR.org.

Hear Shearwater in Concert

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All Songs Considered

2012 Winter Music Preview

December 29, 2011 • We look at some of the music coming out in the first few months of 2012 and play a dozen new songs from musicians including Sleigh Bells, Craig Finn, Shearwater and Sharon Van Etten.

2012 Winter Music Preview

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Song Of The Day

Shearwater: Grandiose And Delicate

March 19, 2010 • Shearwater makes epic, artful, bracing rock out of unlikely ingredients. The resulting concoctions are known to explode into bellowing catharsis, courtesy of singer Jonathan Meiburg and his crack band. But Shearwater's most blistering moments coexist nicely with the portentously brooding, fearlessly serious likes of "Hidden Lakes," from The Golden Archipelago.

Hidden Lakes

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First Listen

Exclusive First Listen: Shearwater

February 7, 2010 • Shearwater's delicate, dramatic new album, The Golden Archipelago, wasn't built for earbuds or tinny car stereos: This is immersive, artful music, meant to be examined in-depth from every angle. The album will stream at NPR Music in its entirety for the two weeks leading up to its release on Feb. 23.

All Songs Considered

African Legends, New Music From Shearwater And More

February 22, 2010 • On this edition of All Songs Considered, we hear Fela Kuti's, Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate, Shearwater, Eluvium, Laura Gibson and Ethan Rose, Richard Skelton, and more.

African Legends, New Music From Shearwater And More

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All Songs Considered

Live Music From Bob Boilen's Desk

June 22, 2009 • If you love seeing live concerts, chances are you've gone to shows where the clinking beer bottles and incessant crowd chatter were louder than the music. After seeing the soft spoken Laura Gibson lose out to a noisy audience during a show in Austin, TX, All Songs Considered host Bob Boilen and Song of the Day editor Stephen Thompson came up with a novel solution: They invited Gibson to play at the NPR Music offices, specifically Bob Boilen's desk, launching what's now called the Tiny Desk Concert series.

Live Music From Bob Boilen's Desk

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World Cafe

Shearwater: Soothing And Dreamlike

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February 12, 2009 • Led by former Okkervil River member Jonathan Meiburg, Shearwater possesses a rich, haunting and musically diverse sound. Last year's Rook is packed with careful, atmospheric arrangements and soothing, dreamlike vocals.

Shearwater in Studio on World Cafe 2/12/09

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