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Shearwater
Also Playing: Wye Oak and Hospital Ships
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Amy V. Cooper
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Tue May 4
7:30 pm
Shearwater, Wye Oak, and Hospital Ships at Walnut Room
Any artist willing to drone on somberly for long enough these days will eventually get credit for setting a “haunting” mood, but most will fail to match Shearwater’s slipped-between-worlds quality. Leader Jonathan Meiburg doesn’t make the Austin band’s methods obvious: Though his vocals mix a moaning baritone and wavering falsetto, they tend to keep even the band’s trippier songs on a firm melodic path. Tourmates Baltimore indie-folk duo Wye Oak is a blend of Southern culture and Northern sensibilities—and its sound is surprisingly self-assured. In a Yo La Tengo-esque male-female musical partnership, the pair creates full-sounding songs so delicately layered that they seem the product of more than two people.
Walnut Room 3131 Walnut St, Denver/Boulder, CO
Any artist willing to drone on somberly for long enough these days will eventually get credit for setting a “haunting” mood, but most will fail to match Shearwater’s slipped-between-worlds quality. Leader Jonathan Meiburg doesn’t make the Austin band’s methods obvious: Though his vocals mix a moaning baritone and wavering falsetto, they tend to keep even the band’s trippier songs on a firm melodic path. Tourmates Baltimore indie-folk duo Wye Oak is a blend of Southern culture and Northern sensibilities—and its sound is surprisingly self-assured. In a Yo La Tengo-esque male-female musical partnership, the pair creates full-sounding songs so delicately layered that they seem the product of more than two people.
Updated 03/05/2012
