Europe/UK Tour #1 and “You As You Were” Video
As I write, we’re headed for Europe for our first tour since the release of Animal Joy. Many of the places we’re going are old friends – like Scala in London, Stereo in Glasgow, the Maroquinerie in Paris, Comet in Berlin, Bronson in lovely Ravenna, to name a few. But some are brand new; Istanbul, […]
Them’s the Boys (+ SXSW 2012)
With the first tour under our belt, I wanted to belatedly introduce the members of this year’s touring lineup. (Kimberly and Thor are sitting this one out, but are still very much part of the family and a huge part of Animal Joy). From left to right: Mitch Billeaud, of Austin band The Lemurs, on […]
Winding Back
Happy Leap Day! This week is the last of our winter North American tour, ending back home at Antone’s in Austin on March 4. If we’ve missed you, don’t worry – we’ll be touring throughout the year. After SXSW, we will be speeding across Europe from Amsterdam to Athens with the wonderful Julie Doiron. Once […]
Unleashed
Animal Joy is now available in the Americas and Europe! It can be yours at one of our upcoming concerts, your friendly local record store, subpop.com, or wherever else wax and plastic discs are sold. It will be arriving in the UK on February 27. Thanks to Sub Pop, EVERYBODY can stream the entire album […]
Hear Animal Joy Now, Tour Starts Today
The wait has been long, but at last you can hear Animal Joy whole and entire courtesy of NPR though February 14. Meanwhile, tonight (2/6/2012) is the first show of the spring tour! We’re playing at the Record Bar in scenic Kansas City, MO. Check the Shows page for American and European tour dates, ticket […]
Animal Joy is Coming to You
Animal Joy will be in your hands in a scant three weeks. Pre-orders are up on subpop.com. Pre-ordering from Sub Pop will get you demos of four Animal Joy songs and an exclusive original song, “Escape from Holy Mountain,” plus stickers! In addition, Sub Pop will be donating $2 of each pre-order to the Audubon […]
“Just give ‘em the Grammy already” – GC
Our new album, Animal Joy, will be released by Sub Pop records on February 14, 2012 in the USA and Feb 27th in the rest of the world. It’s a very different beast (no pun intended) from the Island Arc albums, but we’re really happy with it. We recorded it in Austin with Danny Reisch […]
Why I Love My (New) Home
Our promised big news at last: we’ve signed to Seattle’s Sub Pop records. We’re proud to be joining their excellent roster, and excited about the new album we start recording in a few short weeks. To celebrate, we’re releasing a couple of new items on our bandcamp page: The first is a set of live […]
Looking Ahead
It’s springtime in Texas, and everything seems possible. For the first time in several years, we mostly sat out SXSW, though we’ll probably to be back next year – the only SW-related performance was a live soundtrack to some footage shot by Scottish filmmaker David Mackenzie on the remote island of Tristan da Cunha last […]
The Island Arc Performance
On January 15th, 2011, Shearwater will present The Island Arc, the trilogy of albums that includes 2006’s Palo Santo, 2008’s Rook, and 2010’s The Golden Archipelago, in a single, complete performance at the beautiful Central Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas. This will be a one-time-only event – we’ve never performed these thematically-linked albums in order, […]
