Artist
Shearwater
Shearwater is an indie rock artist from Austin,USA formed in 1999. 25 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Indie Rock · Austin,USA · Best indie rock albums
- 25
- Releases
- 2001–2026
- Active years
- 1999
- Formed
Discography
16
Most popular
Rook
2008 · 10 tracks
Jet Plane and Oxbow
2016
Animal Joy
2012
The Golden Archipelago
2010
Palo Santo
2006
Fellow Travelers
2013
The Dissolving Room
2001
Everybody Makes Mistakes
2002
Winged Life
2004
The Great Awakening
2022
Quarantine Music V-VIII
2020
Quarantine Music I-IV
2020
Shearwater Is Enron
2010
Shearwater Live at Maxwell's 05/20/2004
2004
Shearwater Live at Maxwell's 11/13/2004
2004
Shearwater Live at Schubas 05/09/2004
2004
Singles & EPs
9
Upcoming shows
Community
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About
Shearwater was formed by two bandmembers of Austin, TX's Okkervil River. Okkervil's back-up vocalist and accordion/keyboard player Jonathan Meiburg and singer and guitarist Will Sheff formed Shearwater so they could write quieter songs. Beginning in 2005, Sheff lessened his role in the band, leaving Meiburg as the band's songwriter from Palo Santo on. Band members today include Jonathan Meiburg, Thor Harris, Kim Burke, Lucas Oswald, with many contributions from others. The touring band in 2012 featured producer/drummer Danny Reisch and guitarist/vocalist Mitch Billeaud of The Lemurs and Christiaan Mader of Brass Bed. To date, Shearwater has released seven full-length albums The Dissolving Room, Everybody Makes Mistakes, Winged Life, Palo Santo, Rook, The Golden Archipelago, and Animal Joy, as well as EPs Thieves and The Snow Leopard, and a split LP with Okkervil River entitled Sham Wedding/Hoax Funeral. An album of covers of former touring partners, Fellow Travelers, will release in November 2013, with a new album of originals following in 2014. As an ornithologist and writer, Meiburg has a unique perspective.
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The songs of Palo Santo were partly written at the Galápagos Islands in the footsteps of Charles Darwin. Rook was influenced by studies in the Falklands Islands and by the current mass extinction we are living through. The Golden Archipelago examined the destruction of island cultures in the 20th century and beyond. Animal Joy returned to more personal concerns; Meiburg stated repeatedly in interviews that the foundational idea is that life is most real when "the blood flows fastest and closest to the surface." Fellow Travelers started as a small home EP and expanded into a full album celebrating relationships with the other bands they've met along the way.
Shearwater in brief
- How many Shearwater releases are on Riffiter?
- 25 releases are catalogued, spanning 2001 to 2026.
- When was Shearwater formed?
- Shearwater formed in 1999, in Austin,USA.
- What genre is Shearwater?
- Shearwater is catalogued under Indie Rock.
- What is the most recent Shearwater release on Riffiter?
- Daydream Unbeliever / More and More, released in 2026.