We have packed Shearwater (+ Cross Record) and Damien Jurado (4. 7.) Indekš lessons into a final sumer semester Indekš duplet with for a special price of 13 €. Just to make you more at ease before your actual vacation spendings. Tickets> Jet Plane and Oxbow, Shearwater‘s second original full-length for Sub Pop, is their career-defining album—the leap forward those
We have packed Shearwater (+ Cross Record) and Damien Jurado (4. 7.) Indekš lessons into a final sumer semester Indekš duplet with for a special price of 13 €. Just to make you more at ease before your actual vacation spendings.
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Jet Plane and Oxbow, Shearwater‘s second original full-length for Sub Pop, is their career-defining album—the leap forward those of us who’ve watched them for years have always believed they would make. Lush, powerful, and grand, with a confident edge heard more often in their live shows than on record, it feels like the musical statement they’ve been working toward through five albums and a decade on the road. It’s an album that captures the light and darkness of our time through the lens of one of our most unique and, for a growing number of ardent fans, treasured bands.
This is definitely Shearwater’s loudest record; it’s easy to imagine these songs roaring from the stage. But it’s also, strangely, their most beautiful one. Producer/engineer Danny Reisch (who also recorded 2012’s Animal Joy and the off-the-cuff collaborations of 2014’s Fellow Travelers) and singer Jonathan Meiburg spent two years crafting Jet Plane and Oxbow in studios in Austin, Portland, and Los Angeles, with help from drummer Cully Symington, longtime Shearwater associates Howard Draper, Lucas Oswald and Abram Shook, and past tourmates Jesca Hoop and Jenn Wasner (of Wye Oak).
Shearwater begin touring in Europe in February 2016, and the United States in March. Besides Meiburg, the live band will include Jamie Stewart (of Xiu Xiu), Lucas Oswald, Josh Halpern, and Emily Lee.
Cross Record
Two years ago, Emily Cross decamped from Chicago to the remote, idyllic town of Dripping Springs, TX with her husband, Dan Duszynski, who together form Cross Record. They rented a ranch that covers 18 acres, has a chicken coop and is located next to a bird sanctuary. Between 60-hour workweeks at restaurants, supermarkets, and nannying, she composed an album that absorbs any workaday commonalities and shaped them into her smoky, atmospheric and gripping second album, Wabi-Sabi released in January 29th.
Most recording was done in the early and late hours of the day, with loons cawing in the distance thanks to that bird sanctuary. The ambiance of twilight evenings and orange dawns formed the heart and soul of Wabi-Sabi. The album contrasts Cross’ wispy, silvery singing and minimal presentation with the dark intensity of booming drums, thick guitar and destabilized electronics. It’s a record that can be loud, stirring and unsettling, but also quietly still and serene.
