
Shearwater - You As You Were Fun facts gleaned from 20 total hours spread over two layovers spent in the Guangzhou International Airport: It's winter in China. "Well, duh," you are muttering, but I live in Malaysia and was visiting California. In my head, winter exists exclusive in movies and memories. I own exactly one pair of pants and zero coats. "So cold ah?" the lady behind me said as she rubbed my bare arm when we disembarked. I agreed. I'm fairly certain they don't heat the airport. [...]

And it's animal joyous...whatever that might mean.

True fans of music spend countless hours searching for that next great song, album or artist, whether it be online or in a local record shop. The beautiful thing about music in today's age is that technology has created an infinite supply of great music that is available to us at the click of a [...]

True fans of music spend countless hours searching for that next great song, album or artist, whether it be online or in a local record shop. The beautiful thing about music in today's age is that technology has created an infinite supply of great music that is available to us at the click of a mouse. How perfect is that? We can discover a brand new artist on the opposite side of the globe in seconds without a radio or a music television channel. It only makes sense that a website so dedicated to this gorgeous universe of music would [...]
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Shearwater no es solamente una banda mas que aparecio hace cerca de 9 años en el circuito de Texas; yo veo a Shearwater desde la perspectiva de un gran colectivo de excelentes musicos ya que como seguramente sabran, originalmente este fue un proyecto que nacio de la mente de dos de los integrantes de Okkervil River (Jonathan Meiburg y Will Sheff) asi que aunque no esten familiarizados con Shearwater, puede que si lo esten con Okkervil River o viceversa. En lo personal, algo que siempre me ha resultado bastante interesante de Shearwater, es principalmente las [...]

Dusdin Condren I'm not playing "firsties" here, but I've always known that Sharon Van Etten would go on to big things since writing up her debut Because I Was In Love back in October 2009 , and following 20102s excellent epic it seemed pretty clear that her third album Tramp - released yesterday - would be the one that would see her break out in a big way. That said, I'm still surprised at just [...]

Their set featured: You As You Were Dread Sovereign Breaking The Yearlings Run The Banner Down Enjoy the full playback via SoundCloud. Animal Joy will see daylight shortly. Purchase Shearwater items via Insound. MP3: Shearwater - You As You Were
In today's post, we have a 2nd track from the forthcoming Bowerbirds album The Clearing , which I have to say is getting me more and more excited; we have a new track off a new Woodpigeon EP For Paolo that is pretty damn awesome; we have a couple tracks that I like from bands I don't know much about, some that I know a little more about ( Said the Whale , Damien Jurado ), and we have the "slow version" of Superchunk 's absolutely brilliant 2009 B-side "Blinders", the [...]

New York by way of Australia genre benders Young Magic unleash their debut LP, Melt , on February 14th via Carpark Records. You can stream all 11 of the album's tracks below (via The Hype Machine ). Other albums available for an early spin: - Bahamas ' new self-titled LP is out tomorrow (Feb. 7th) via Brushfire Records. Stream it now at Totally Fuzzy Blog . - Shearwater returns with its 7th LP, Animal Joy , on February 14th via Sub Pop. Stream it now [...]

Photo by Amy V. Cooper From NPR Music : Even at its most tender and delicate, Animal Joy pairs Meiburg's brainy proclamations with brawny, searching arrangements: Inventive percussionist Thor Harris leaves his reverberations all over the record, and he's aided by terrific bassist Kimberly Burke and an impressive assortment of guests, including Wye Oak multi-instrumentalist Andy Stack. The common thread binding them all, and binding everything Shearwater does, is a love of big thinking — and a clear understanding that brains and beauty need never be mutually exclusive. [...]
Shearwater's new album is out next week, and we've already heard three quite-nice takes from that affair, " You As You Were ," " Breaking The Yearlings " and " Animal Joy ." And now, as part of NPR's first listen, Animal Joy is streaming in full . It's out next week on Sub Pop .

Posted at 4:15pm, 2/6/2012 Every week we bring you the best cutting edge music from around the web. Our newest batch of uploads are ready for your listening pleasure. You can download the following mp3s individually OR play them all in a row. Click on the artists at the right under Related Downloads to learn more about each band and see similar music suggestions. Play All [RICH MEDIA, CLICK TO VIEW ON SITE] [RICH MEDIA, CLICK TO [...]

Album number eight from American rockers the SHEARWATER has just taken a leak. ANIMAL JOY D.O.B : February 27, 2012 Label : Sub Pop Tracklist : 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 via : Filepost, TurboBit, UploadedTo

Mick Rock I will be the first to admit to not really being able to tell where Bradford Cox's Deerhunter ends and his Atlas Sound begins. I know that the former is ostensibly a band and the latter a solo project, but to my ears the hazy, psychedelic rock that each project produces isn't exactly a world apart. Okay, Atlas Sound is more keys, less guitars, but they're both critically adored and don't really do a lot for me, despite on paper being the sort of thing I should totally dig. [...]

Here are the best of our January posts together with a few tasty new tracks. All in all nearly forty great tunes compiled and neatly presented in one lovely mix. As always, don't forget to check out all our previous monthly mixes listed in the sidebar on the left. Download Night Genes – Soaring Through The Chromosomes mp3 (from Like The Blood) Infectiously catchy, military folk stomp. A real gem. Download Cheyenne Marie Mize – Wishing Well mp3 (from We Don't Need EP) A mix of r&b tinged staccato vocals [...]

Posted at 10:05am, 2/1/2012 Find everything that went up in the month of January. You can download the following mp3s individually OR listen to the whole batch in one playlist. Click on the artists at the right under Related Downloads to learn more about each band and see similar music suggestions. Play All [RICH MEDIA, CLICK TO VIEW ON SITE] [RICH MEDIA, CLICK TO VIEW ON SITE] [...]
I had surgery on my foot on December 7th, which turned out to be my own personal Pearl Harbor. And yes, I just compared my travails over the past 2 months with the attack that started America's entrance into World War II. Which might be worse than me weaving the story of my upcoming surgery with a review of 127 Hours . But this is my blog and fuck it, the last 7 fucking weeks have been absolute hell. So let's just move on. Shit happens to arlot of people but when you've been [...]
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: Ane Brun : "Do You Remember (with First Aid Kit)" [mp3] from It All Starts With One (out May 1st) search for more Ane Brun posts at Largehearted Boy The Boxing Lesson [...]

The Austin, Texas band Shearwater are releasing a new album, Animal Joy on Sub Pop records on February 14th. They'll be in town on February 10th at Johnny Brenda's opening for Sharon Van Etten. The show is sold out. Below, download "You As You Were" from Shearwater's forthcoming album. You As You Were by Shearwater from Animal Joy Download

1. Damien Jurado - Museum Of Flight.mp3 2. Wild Nothing - Nowhere.mp3 3. First Aid Kit - Emmylou.mp3 4. Lower Dens - Brains.mp3 5. Plants & Animals - Lightshow.mp3 6. Shearwater - You As You Were.mp3 7. Perfume Genius - All Waters.mp3 SIDE B 1. Mount Eerie - Distorted Cymbals.mp3 2. Porcelain Raft - Shapeless And Gone.mp3 3. [...]