My favorite part of Blue Water White Death's self-titled debut album is definitely – without a doubt – exactly three minutes and fourteen seconds into "Song For The Greater Jihad". At that moment, in a song that features some gentle acoustic guitar work, some slightly off kilter crooning, and a few well placed bombs of noise, there is such a weird howl that I rewound (or the equivalent in this digital era) back fourteen times just to hear it again and again – before I then finished listening to the song. It's like if those creatures in The Descent [...]
Pitch Perfect For fans of a certain artfully raw and dramatic brand of indie rock, neither Jonathan Meiburg nor Jamie Stewart really needs an introduction. The former was a principal in Okkervil River and now fronts Shearwater , while the latter has been the creative force behind Xiu Xiu since 2002, and for the benefit of those familiar with one and not the other, their bands had toured together in recent years. And now, they've made an album together. Over the course of a week earlier this year, Meiburg [...]
When it was announced that Shearwater 's Jonathan Meiburg and Xiu Xiu 's Jamie Stewart were collaborating on an album, a lot of people were a little puzzled. If you think about it, though, the two artists are a good match—the leaders of their respective bands, each is known for a sort of introspective experimentation. The only real difference is in the choice of voice, with Meiburg preferring expansive, moody folk and Stewart favoring more uptempo, synthy prog. The music they've made together as Blue Water White Death is a dark blend [...]
Hope you know how to swim, the masterminds behind Xiu Xiu and Shearwater are here to take you on a foreboding journey through the dangers of the deep ocean. If the February release of Xiu Xiu's Dear God, I Hate Myself wasn't enough to satiate your urges for Jamie Stewart's overwrought melodrama this year, don't fret: he worked on a side project. Blue Water White Death is a collaboration between Stewart and multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Meiburg of Texas group Shearwater. With no material written beforehand, the two entered a studio for a week and crafted this compact eight-song album that [...]
To celebrate today's crop of releases, here are new mp3s from Birds & Batteries, the Black, the Black Heart Procession, Blue Water White Death, Dive Index, the Fresh & Onlys, Gold Panda, Cheyenne Marie Mize, Franz Nicolay, Pigeon John, Sufjan Stevens and Kelley Stoltz. Plus check out our 2006 Belle And Sebastian cover story, our [...]
The debut album from Blue Water White Death , the collaborative project between Xiu Xiu 's Jamie Stewart and Shearwater 's Jonathan Meiburg, is coming out tomorrow on Graveface Records. The members' impressive resumes alone make the release highly anticipated. For a little bit of a preview, check out the video for "Grunt Tube" above.
Blue Water White Death (Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart and Shearwater's Jonathan Meiburg) present the video for"Grunt Tube" from their album coming out tomorrow. "Songs for the Greater Jihad" mp3 http://bluewaterwhitedeath.com / http://graveface.com/
If you've been a RFC reader for any length of time—or, let's be honest, just this past week—you know how we feel about Okkervil River and Shearwater . So when we learned that Shearwater's Jamie Meiburg had begun a collaboration with Xiu Xiu frontman Jamie Stewart... Well, let's just say we were a little excited. The first, self-titled release from Meiburg's and Stewart's project Blue Water White Death is due out October 12, and all indications point toward a perfect union of Shearwater's spacious grace and Xiu Xiu's forward-thinking experimentalism. [...]
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Blue Water White Death - s/t Out 10/12 on Graveface Blue Water White Death - "Song for the Greater Jihad"
The name "Liberia" denotes liberty. The history of this country is unique among African nations because of its relationship with the United States. It is one of only two countries in Africa, along with Ethiopia, without roots in the European Scramble for Africa. It was founded and colonized by freed American slaves with the help [...]
Blue Water Death, the collaboration between Shearwater's Jonathan Meiburg and Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart, epitomizes a "do more with less" ethos that rattles with intensity. The duo champions a stripped-down approach that is beautifully set above shifting, strong undercurrents.Blue Water Death will release its eponymous debut album on October 12, but in the meantime, the duo is offering a glimpse
Today, us east coast kids are hunkered down, waiting for that hurricane that probably won't hit us at all but which provides a good excuse to take the day off! Of course, we at Consequence of Sound don't even know what this day off thingy means and will probably work through the 2012 apocalypse. But you should enjoy a day off, just for the sake of having more time to read all our great content AND listen to all the awesome music included on this week's Friday Mixtape. Once again, it's jam packed and thanks to the recent [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Blue Water White Death (Jonathan Meiburg & Jamie Stewart) \: "Song for the Greater Jihad" [mp3] from Blue Water White Death (out October 12th) other Blue Water White Death posts at Largehearted Boy [...]
Blue Water White Death, the new project by Shearwater's Jonathan Meiburg and Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart, is releasing their debut, self-titled album on October 12th on Graveface. We are pleased to share with you "Song for the Greater Jihad", the second song on the album. songforthegreaterjihad
We told you a couple of months ago about Blue Water White Death , the collaboration between Jamie Stewart and Jonathan Meiburg, frontmen of Xiu Xiu and Shearwater respectively. Since then updates have been in short supply, their website still reads "coming soon." However Stereogum have just premiered a track from the album called "Song For The Great Jihad" which you can check out below. MP3: Blue Water White Death - "Song For The Great Jihad" The description of the album posted in that Stereogum piece reads as [...]
I am sure you, like myself, often pass your commute or jog thinking of best of lists that you are likely to never share with anyone, unless maybe you get that List 'Em Carefully assignment that you've been dreaming of. You don't? Top ten songs about natural disasters? Top ten songs with a girls name in the title? Not even top ten songs about cities where you have lived? The one I am always working on, perhaps the list to end all lists, is top ten individual moments of songs. From a note to a sound to a whole [...]
Jamie Stewart de Xiu Xiu (a quien tuvimos recientemente en México) y Jonathan Melburg (de la banda Shearwater ) han formado una nueva banda a la que le pusieron Blue Water White Death. El grupo lanzará un EP producido por John Congleton (quien ha trabajado con Bono , Modest Mouse y Explosions in the Sky , entre otros) el próximo 12 de octubre. El disco promete ser uno de los experimentos más interesantes en lo que va del año. dado el estatus de [...]
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