Palo Santo (Shearwater album) explained

Palo Santo
Type:Album
Artist:Shearwater
Cover:Palo Santo (Shearwater album) coveart.jpg
Released:May 9, 2006
Genre:Indie rock
Label:Misra Records
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Palo Santo is an album by Shearwater, released in 2006 on Misra Records.[1] [2] The album was re-released in an expanded, partly re-recorded, fully remastered and repackaged edition in 2007 on Matador Records.[3] The album was inspired by the life and death of the singer Nico;[4] [5] [6] Jonathan Meiburg mentions this on the album The Island Arc Live (Excerpts), in a recording from Shearwater's January 15, 2011, performance at Austin's Central Presbyterian Church.

Critical reception

The New York Times wrote that "this is one of the year's best indie-rock albums ... These 11 flickering — and hummable — songs tell a desperate but not quite decipherable story."[1] NME called the album "both magnificent and bewildering," writing that "meandering piano and plucked banjo laments wind towards dramatic crescendos, songs fracture and split as if powered by dream logic."[7]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Jonathan Meiburg (except "Special Rider Blues").

2006 release

  1. "La Dame et la Licorne" – 5:19
  2. "Red Sea, Black Sea" – 2:58
  3. "White Waves" – 4:21
  4. "Palo Santo" – 3:45
  5. "Seventy-four, Seventy-five" – 3:21
  6. "Nobody" – 3:02
  7. "Sing, Little Birdie" – 3:10
  8. "Johnny Viola" – 2:30
  9. "Failed Queen" – 5:51
  10. "Hail, Mary" – 5:11
  11. "Going Is Song" – 3:41

2007 re-release

The release includes new versions of the tracks "La Dame et la licorne," "Red Sea, Black Sea," "Seventy-four, Seventy-five," "Johnny Viola," and "Hail Mary," remastered versions of the other tracks retained from the original 2006 release, and a bonus CD containing demos and miscellaneous tracks.

Disk 1

  1. "La Dame et la Licorne" – 5:27
  2. "Red Sea, Black Sea" – 3:09
  3. "White Waves" – 4:20
  4. "Palo Santo" – 3:48
  5. "Seventy-four, Seventy-five" – 3:24
  6. "Nobody" – 3:01
  7. "Sing, Little Birdie" – 3:10
  8. "Johnny Viola" – 2:29
  9. "Failed Queen" – 5:50
  10. "Hail, Mary" – 6:16
  11. "Going Is Song" – 3:42

Disk 2

  1. "My Only Boy" - 4:39
  2. "Every Hook, Every Eye" - 2:20
  3. "Special Rider Blues" (Skip James Cover) - 5:21
  4. "Sing, Little Birdie" (Demo) - 3:05
  5. "Palo Santo" (Demo) - 3:45
  6. "Discontinuities" - 3:41
  7. "Red Sea, Black Sea" (Demo) - 3:10
  8. "Failed Queen" (Demo) - 6:27

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: New CD's. The New York. Times. May 29, 2006. NYTimes.com.
  2. Web site: Shearwater | Biography & History. AllMusic.
  3. Web site: Album Review: Shearwater - Palo Santo (re-release). DrownedInSound. 2020-08-28. 2021-06-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20210617105258/https://drownedinsound.com/releases/11171/reviews/2447318-. dead.
  4. Web site: "DiS Meets Jonathan Meiburg of Shearwater". January 19, 2010. March 5, 2021. June 16, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210616232348/https://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/4138836-dis-meets-jonathan-meiburg-of-shearwater. dead.
  5. Web site: "Shearwater Interview". August 24, 2007.
  6. Web site: "Shearwater's Jonathan Meiburg :: The AD Interview". August 18, 2008.
  7. Web site: Shearwater | NME. . August 29, 2007.

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