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Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Preorder The Great Awakening now

Starting at 9 AM EDT today, the new Shearwater album The Great Awakening—our first in six years—will be available for pre-order here. A limited number of signed 180-gram vinyl 2xLPs and CDs can also be found for sale on our Bandcamp page.

The album will be officially released in digital, CD, and standard-weight 2xLP formats on June 10th, through all the usual channels—and of course, we’re always happiest if you order it through your local record store (it’s been a rough couple of years for them).

The Great Awakening album cover

At nearly an hour, The Great Awakening is certainly the longest Shearwater album, and friends have said it might also be the best. We’ve never worked harder on one. It’s lush and strange, and a feast for your ears—and to me, at least, it evokes older versions of the band even as it goes places we haven’t been before.

Many of you supported the campaign that funded the album’s production, for which we’re more than grateful. Shaping it with producer/engineer Dan Duszynski helped keep us all saner in the long months of 2020-21, and the thought that we were making something other people wanted to hear helped us feel (much) less alone.

2) Live shows?

Once upon a time, an announcement like this would come with tour dates. That’s not the world we’re in right now, alas, but we’re looking at options for some kind of live performance(s) within the next year. We’ll keep you posted.

3) First single, “Xenarthran,” and a video

The Great Awakening‘s first single, “Xenarthran,” premieres on YouTube, also at 9AM Eastern today. It was filmed and directed by our friend Emily Cross (of Loma and Cross Record).

4) Paperback Writer

Lastly: my book, A Most Remarkable Creature, was just released in paperback by Vintage in the US and UK. I’m proud to say that it restores an end-parenthesis that snuck out of the hardcover edition when I wasn’t looking, and that it has 100% more Ecuador labeled on the map of South America. (I’ve also started work on a new book—but that’s a story for another day.) You can learn more and find links to order it here.

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5 hours ago

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What baffles me most about whatever Republicans are becoming is their shameless embrace of cruelty toward other human beings as a good, the subjugation of others to their will as adherence to a divine plan. We've heard that line before in this country, and it didn't end well.

But even beyond that, what happiness will these ghoulish, empty victories actually bring them, in the dull, concrete moments of their actual lives? (JM)
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Fear-based control, without it they’d be nothing.

Power. Power over women, power over minorities, the power to choose gun rights over children's safety. A love of violence and a hatred of the feminine power. Aaron Sorkin was right (though he was referring to the 'Tea Party' who it could be argued have successfully overrun the GOP), the Republicans are the American Taliban. Aaron tempered that association by asserting that view as reductive, but it is so only because of the power of those who stand opposed. If they weren't opposed, they would do as they will. And they would not stop. We have these charlatans of humanity in my country as well. Here they call themselves One Nation and Liberals, it's a sick and sad irony that they are anything but liberal.

“Ghoulish, empty victories” is pretty much indicative of British politics for the last 12 years Jonathan…we feel your pain…

Power. It gives them the illusion of power.

It's not about happiness for them - it's about power

This was my central question as well. What do they stand to gain? 😞

Not my answer, but one from an NPR interview today. BRYANT: I would say first you need to kneel and pray to God, who is the God of everyone, that in your heart, you can understand that that is a living human being. And so try as you might to find God in this. Try to pray and have him open your eyes and come into your heart and realize this is your child. This is a human being who has the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And you're about to take all that away for your convenience. Pray. That's what I would tell them. Pray hard. KELLY: When you say women are choosing an abortion because it is for their convenience, I just want to push you on that, because there are a lot of women who would say, this is not about my convenience. This is not a choice anyone wants to make. This is about my right to control my body. BRYANT: And I would tell men and women that you have a responsibility. We all did, and all of us are - fall short of the grace of God. But please consider your responsibilities. And, men, take the responsibility of being the father. So we don't want to wish - we're not hardhearted. We understand these difficult situations. It's why we work so hard here to make adoption easier for families who can't have children and families who want desperately to have a child. So look. I'm not mad at anyone. I'm not judging anyone. I am just saying that the Supreme Court upheld a law today that said that the states have the right to regulate abortions and that we will continue to do that within the confines of the Constitution of the United States laws. KELLY: Phil Bryant. He was the governor of Mississippi from 2012 to 2020. Governor Bryant, thank you.

Impunity, power, money, control, orthodoxy, enforcement of ideology, reaffirmation of identity, patriarchal hegemony — there’s infinite happiness to be found in the foundry of the Republican shithole, and y’all best be vigilant and clear-eyed.

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14 hours ago

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Update: Huge thanks to everyone who's asked questions and hung out today. It's been great to hear from you—and thanks especially for all your kind words about SW records old and new. It's like being hugged over and over.

If you missed it, you can still read all the questions/answers here: www.reddit.com/r/indieheads/comments/vjnv2n/shearwater_amaquestions_on_any_scale_wjonathan/

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Friends! Our @indie_heads Reddit AMA post is live now! If you have any questions (about SW, books, birds, science, Loma, Texas, band feuds, etc) now's your time to ask. I'll be there at 11AM ET / 8AM PT to answer as many questions as I can. (JM)
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Update: Huge thanks to everyone whos asked questions and hung out today. Its been great to hear from you—and thanks especially for all your kind words about SW records old and new. Its like being hugged over and over.

If you missed it, you can still read all the questions/answers here: https://www.reddit.com/r/indieheads/comments/vjnv2n/shearwater_amaquestions_on_any_scale_wjonathan/

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Friends! Our @indie_heads Reddit AMA post is live now! If you have any questions (about SW, books, birds, science, Loma, Texas, band feuds, etc) nows your time to ask. Ill be there at 11AM ET / 8AM PT to answer as many questions as I can. (JM)
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Whoop! The new record is amazing!

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1 day ago

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Have you been wondering if your #askshearwater questions fell into a black hole? It's been tough to film those videos recently, but if you have questions, tomorrow's your chance! JM will be answering any and all questions on his Reddit @indie_heads AMA.

We’ll post the direct link to the AMA a couple of hours before it starts, so if you have questions, but can't make it there live, you can ask them beforehand and JM can answer them, and you can come back for the answer later.
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Have you been wondering if your #askshearwater questions fell into a black hole? Its been tough to film those videos recently, but if you have questions, tomorrows your chance! JM will be answering any and all questions on his Reddit @indie_heads AMA.

We’ll post the direct link to the AMA a couple of hours before it starts, so if you have questions, but cant make it there live, you can ask them beforehand and JM can answer them, and you can come back for the answer later.
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The Great Awakening

The Great Awakening: the new LP from Shearwater

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