The new album, Jet Plane and Oxbow, is complete, and will see release in early 2016. Tours in the US and Europe (at least) will follow.
Here’s a video clip from the sessions, in which Brian and Danny share a moment of discovery.
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JM/Shearwater
Available for preorder now at your friendly local record shop, on your favorite internet music service, and/or at our Bandcamp page.
Thanks to NPR Music’s All Songs Considered and Robin Hilton & Lars Gotrich for featuring “Daydream Unbeliever” on this week’s episode!
www.npr.org/2026/06/23/nx-s1-5866735/beck-odelay-mitski-one-direction
FYI, that’s Bobo (one of Dan’s dogs) at the end of the song. We have a rule that if any of the animals makes a sound during a take, it stays in. And Bo wanted to be heard.
JM will be playing an acoustic set and signing copies of The New World on August 1 at Rough Trade West, right after our album is released! Get tickets now: link.dice.fm/l0ab0fdd2ed4
The New World has been deemed Album of the Month in the August 2026 issue of Uncut Magazine! Four whole pages, and a 9/10 review. Thanks to Louis Pattison for a great article and interview. Pick it up at a newsstand near you now (or soon!). A taste:
“An ambitious globe-trotting voyage into changing nature… A richly orchestrated art music assembled in a way that feels simultaneously intimate in sentiment and gigantic in scope… Some of Shearwater’s finest songs to date… Extraordinary and wonderful.” Uncut - 9/10 Album of the Month
