What Are You Listening To?

[Music Head]

listened online



Texas band formed in 2001. This is their sixth album. Midlake or Besnard Lakes, both of which I recently listened to seem similar to this. Midlake was pretty good and I think that's the one Tiggi liked, so he may like this. Besnard Lakes I didn't care for and that is where this falls also, with Castaways being the only track that struck me. I think it's the monotone vocals of Jonathan Meiberg that just never kicked in for me. Most of the music is quite interesting. Hidden Lakes is the first single.

I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Corridors

Best Track - Castaways

By shadowing
all the darkened fields
of forgotten words
and civilian lives
through violence
through the changing guards
through the grinding away
and the furious marching
by gathering/the holy light
and weathering
a cast away life
and the rising fear

The hollowness
of the flags and gods
that are raised in the air
in the wake of their raging

Your skinny arms
hold a lantern up
on the brightest array
of the stars in their moorings
and summoning
the holy light
on their citadels
the blackening sky
the collapsing sun, the burning wall
that approaches our eyes
you live again
in the shuddering light
of these images
this valediction
you are running from a rising tide
you are castaways


1) Meridian - 1.5 - audio
YouTube - Shearwater - Meridian
2) Black Eyes - 1.5 - audio
YouTube - Shearwater-Black Eyes
3) Landscape At Speed - 1.0 - audio
YouTube - Shearwater-Landscape At Speed
4) Hidden Lakes - 1.5 - video
YouTube - Shearwater - "Hidden Lakes" (official video)
5) Corridors - 1.0
6) God Made Me - 1.5
7) Runners Of The Sun - 1.5 - audio
YouTube - SHEARWATER-runners of the sun (2010).wmv
8) Castaways - 2.0 - audio
YouTube - Shearwater - Castaways (new song)
9) An Insular Life - 1.5 - audio
YouTube - Shearwater - An insular life
10) Uniforms - 1.5 - audio
YouTube - Shearwater - Uniforms
11) Missing Islands - 1.0 - audio
YouTube - Shearwater - Missing Islands

Average Rating - 1.4