Audio By Carbonatix
Keep Dallas Observer Free
We’re aiming to raise $10,000 by April 26. Your support ensures Dallas Observer can continue watching out for you and our community. No paywall. Always accessible. Daily online and weekly in print.
In this week’s forest-killing version of DC9, one Cory Graves handles the task of catching us all up to speed on Austin’s Shearwater, which comes to town tomorrow night with Wye Oak and Hospital Ships in tow for maybe the best top-to-bottom bill we’ll see all weekend. Turns out Shearwater just dropped a new album, and, as Graves explains, it’s kind of a keeper:
After toiling away for months with the help of local studio ace John Congleton, Meiburg’s Austin-based outfit recently released the
disc, its most engrossing effort to date. It’s also the band’s sixth
studio album–and third in a trilogy of albums linked by themes of
environmental and human decay. It’s more than that, though: [The Golden Archipelago]
outdoes its predecessors by creating sonic landscapes that match the
thrilling dynamics of Shearwater’s live shows and pairs them with the
group’s subtle orchestrations and Meiburg’s rich, melodramatic vocals. Continue reading…
In short: You want to go to there. And we can help you do so for free, thanks to our friends at The Loft. First five people to shoot me an email with the words “Birds of a Feather” in the subject line get the tickets. Good luck!
Update: Contest is over. Congrats to our winners!
