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Shearwater
Also Playing: All Tiny Creatures and Coo Woo
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Amy V. Cooper
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Sun Feb 19
8 pm
Shearwater, All Tiny Creatures, and Coo Woo at High Noon Saloon
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. “Black Eyes” and “Corridors,” both from 2010’s The Golden Archipelago, even manage to rock in their own ways. That record completed the band’s “The Island Arc,” a trilogy of LPs with focused songwriting and mystical prog-rock ambitions. The band’s debut for Subpop, 2012’s Animal Joy, arrives baring the vibrant, exuberant “You As You Were” and the equally propulsive “Animal Life.”
High Noon Saloon 701 E. Washington Ave., Madison, WI
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. “Black Eyes” and “Corridors,” both from 2010’s The Golden Archipelago, even manage to rock in their own ways. That record completed the band’s “The Island Arc,” a trilogy of LPs with focused songwriting and mystical prog-rock ambitions. The band’s debut for Subpop, 2012’s Animal Joy, arrives baring the vibrant, exuberant “You As You Were” and the equally propulsive “Animal Life.”
Updated 03/05/2012
