
To be honest, at this point in their career, I'm not expecting anything particularly earth-shattering from Shearwater . Figuratively, that is. I don't expect them to toy with their awesome, awesome formula too much, and on The Golden Archipelago , they deliver. Literally, I want Shearwater's music to shatter earth, every sustained falsetto from Jonathan Meiburg and crash cymbal blowing hot magma through the floor. Figuratively, though. Literally. What? The Golden Archipelago is basically just what I was hoping I'd get; or, rather, what I expected to get. The sound is, [...]