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The Great Awakening

(2022, self-published) | Purchase

The Great Awakening
1. Highgate
2. No Reason
3. Xenarthran
4. Laguna Seca
5. Everyone You Touch
6. Empty Orchestra
7. Milkweed
8. Detritivore
9. Aqaba
10. There Goes the Sun
11. Wind Is Love


Quarantine Music Vol. V-VIII

(2020, self-published) | Purchase

Quarantine Music V-VIII
1. Two Sleepless Nights: April
2. Two Sleepless Nights: May
3. Thin Place Journals
4. Blue Forest Overture
5. Under Ancient Eyes


Quarantine Music Vol. I-IV

(2020, self-published) | Purchase

Quarantine Music I-IV
1. Winter Morning Meltdown
2. Europan Benthic Detritivore
3. Empty Memory Palace
4. Brazen Victory Blues


Jet Plane and Oxbow

(2016, Sub Pop) | Lyrics | Purchase

Jet Plane and Oxbow
1. Prime
2. Quiet Americans
3. A Long Time Away
4. Backchannels
5. Filaments
6. Pale Kings
7. Only Child
8. Glass Bones
9. Wildlife in America
10. Radio Silence
11. Stray Light at Clouds Hill


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Rook (mostly) Solo in London, 2018

(2018, self-published) | Listen/Purchase

Rook solo 2018
1. On the Death of the Waters
2. Rooks
3. Leviathan, Bound
4. Home Life
5. Lost Boys
6. Century Eyes
7. I Was A Cloud
8. South Col / The Snow Leopard
9. The Hunter’s Star
10. Birds of Highgate


The Sky Is A Blank Screen: Live Recordings 2016

(2017, self-published) | Listen/Purchase

1. Radio Silence (acoustic)
2. Pale Kings
3. A Long Time Away
4. Filaments
5. Only Child (acoustic)
6. Wildlife in America
7. Kick in the Eye
8. You as You Were
9. Rooks (2016)
10. Backchannels
11. Radio Silence
12. Stray Light at Clouds Hill
13. Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)


Live in St. Malo 2010

(2016, self-published) | Listen/Purchase

Live in St Malo
1. Introduction
2. Meridian
3. Castaways
4. Landscape at Speed
5. Rooks
6. Black Eyes
7. Hidden Lakes
8. Corridors
9. White Waves
10. God Made Me
11. An Insular Life
12. Century Eyes
13. I Was a Cloud
14. Seventy-Four, Seventy-Five
15. Uniforms
16. South Col
17. The Snow Leopard


Rook: Live at Florence Gould Hall

(2016, self-published) | Listen/Purchase

Rook Live at Florence Gould Hall
1. On the Death of the Waters
2. Rooks
3. Leviathan, Bound
4. Home Life
5. Lost Boys
6. Century Eyes
7. I Was A Cloud
8. South Col / The Snow Leopard
9. The Hunter’s Star


Shearwater Plays Lodger

(2016, self-published) | Watch | Purchase digital

Shearwater Plays Lodger
1. Fantastic Voyage
2. African Night Flight
3. Move On
4. Yassassin (Turkish for: Long Live)
5. Red Sails
6. DJ
7. Look Back in Anger
8. Boys Keep Swinging
9. Repetition
10. Red Money


The Complete Island Arc: Recordings and Archives 2006-2010

(2016, self-published) | Liner notes and full tracklist

The Complete Island Arc
– Palo Santo
– Palo Santo Demos
– Palo Santo Original Edition
– Palo Santo Deluxe Edition bonus tracks
– Rook
– The Snow Leopard EP
– Rook Live
– The Golden Archipelago
– The Golden Archipelago instrumentals (six tracks)
– Shearwater is Enron
– Missing Islands
– Excerpts from The Island Arc Live
– Uncollected songs:
“Helix”, “Fierce Little Lark”, “Remember the Tiger”, “Watch & Chain”


Missing Islands: Demos and Outtakes 2007-2012

(2014, self-published) | Liner Notes | Listen/Purchase

Missing Islands
1. Overture
2. I Was a Cloud
3. Rooks
4. Alemayehu
5. JM vs Dolly
6. Thor vs Oak Tree
7. Closed Leaf
8. North Col
9. Home Life
10. Anak Rakata
11. Meridian
12. False Sentinel
13. The Silver Bodies
14. An Insular Life
15. Missing Islands
16. I’m So Glad
17. Breaking the Yearlings
18. Dread Sovereign
19. You as You Were
20. Escape from Holy Mountain


Stay/Novacane

(2014, Sub Pop) | Purchase

Stay/Novacane

Shearwater: Novacane [Frank Ocean]
Low: Stay [Rihanna]


Fellow Travelers

(2013, Sub Pop) | Images from The Hourglass Sea | Purchase

Fellow Travelers
1. Our Only Sun
[Jesca Hoop, “Deeper Devastation”]
2. I Luv the Valley OH!!
[Xiu Xiu]
3. Hurts Like Heaven [Coldplay]
4. Natural One [Folk Implosion]
5. Ambiguity
[David Thomas Broughton]
6. Cheerleader [St. Vincent]
7. Tomorrow [Clinic]
8. A Wake for the Minotaur
[ft. Sharon Van Etten]
9. Mary Is Mary [Wye Oak]
10. Fucked Up Life
[The Baptist Generals]
Bonus single:
a. This Year [Mountain Goats]
b. Black River Song [Angels of Light]
Purchase


Animal Joy

(2012, Sub Pop) | Lyrics | Purchase

Animal Joy
1. Animal Life
2. Breaking the Yearlings
3. Dread Sovereign
4. You as You Were
5. Insolence
6. Immaculate
7. Open Your Houses (Basilisk)
8. Run the Banner Down
9. Pushing the River
10. Believing Makes It Easy
11. Star of the Age
iTunes bonus track:
I’m So Glad
(album purchase not required)


Excerpts from The Island Arc Live

(2011, self-published) | Listen/Purchase Digital

The Island Arc Live
1. Hail, Mary
2. Going is Song
3. Lost Boys
4. I Was a Cloud
5. South Col
6. The Snow Leopard
7. The Hunter’s Star
8. Landscape at Speed
9. Hidden Lakes
10. Missing Islands


Shearwater Is Enron

(2010, self-published) | Listen/Purchase Digital

Shearwater is Enron
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The Golden Archipelago

(2010, Matador) | Lyrics | Images from the Golden Archipelago | Purchase

1. Meridian
2. Black Eyes
3. Landscape At Speed
4. Hidden Lakes
5. Corridors
6. God Made Me
7. Runners of the Sun
8. Castaways
9. An Insular Life
10. Uniforms
11. Missing Islands
Digital bonus tracks:
1. Anak Rakata
2. The Silver Bodies
3. False Sentinel
Vinyl bonus tracks:
Side B Track 2: The Silver Bodies
Side B Track 6: False Sentinel


The Snow Leopard EP

(2008, Matador) | Purchase Digital

  1. The Snow Leopard (remastered)
  2. So Bad (Baby Dee)
  3. North Col
  4. Henry Lee (Traditional; live from KUT)
  5. Rooks (live from Radio K)
  6. I Was A Cloud (live from Radio K)
  7. South Col/The Snow Leopard (live from Florence Gould Hall, NYC)


Rook

(2008, Matador) | Lyrics | Purchase

1. On the Death of the Waters
2. Rooks
3. Leviathan, Bound
4. Home Life
5. Lost Boys
6. Century Eyes
7. I Was A Cloud
8. South Col
9. The Snow Leopard
10. The Hunter’s Star
11. North Col (LP Only)
Rooks 7″
1. Rooks
2. The Rainbow (Talk Talk, live)


Palo Santo: Expanded Edition

(2007, Matador) | Lyrics | Purchase

Disc 1
1. La Dame et la Licorne
2. Red Sea, Black Sea
3. White Waves
4. Palo Santo
5. Seventy-four, Seventy-five
6. Nobody
7. Sing, Little Birdie
8. Johnny Viola
9. Failed Queen
10. Hail, Mary
11. Going Is Song
Disc 2
1. My Only Boy
2. Every Hook, Every Eye
3. Special Rider Blues (Skip James)
4. Sing, Little Birdie
5. Palo Santo
6. Discontinuities
7. Red Sea, Black Sea
8. Failed Queen


Early Music

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