Palo Santo (Shearwater album)
Palo Santo is an album by Shearwater, released in 2006 on Misra Records.[5][6] The album was re-released in an expanded, partly re-recorded, fully remastered and repackaged edition in 2007 on Matador Records.[7] The album was inspired by the life and death of the singer Nico;[8][9][10] Jonathan Meiburg mentions this on the album The Island Arc Live (Excerpts), in a recording from Shearwater's January 15, 2011, performance at Austin's Central Presbyterian Church.
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Released | May 9, 2006 | |||
Genre | Indie rock | |||
Label | Misra Records | |||
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2007 Re-release Cover | ||||
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Pitchfork Media | (7.6/10)[3] |
Prefix | (8.0/10)[4] |
Critical reception
The New York Times wrote that "this is one of the year's best indie-rock albums ... These 11 flickering — and hummable — songs tell a desperate but not quite decipherable story."[5] NME called the album "both magnificent and bewildering," writing that "meandering piano and plucked banjo laments wind towards dramatic crescendos, songs fracture and split as if powered by dream logic."[11]
Track listing
All tracks composed by Jonathan Meiburg (except "Special Rider Blues").[1]
2006 release
- "La Dame et la Licorne" – 5:19
- "Red Sea, Black Sea" – 2:58
- "White Waves" – 4:21
- "Palo Santo" – 3:45
- "Seventy-four, Seventy-five" – 3:21
- "Nobody" – 3:02
- "Sing, Little Birdie" – 3:10
- "Johnny Viola" – 2:30
- "Failed Queen" – 5:51
- "Hail, Mary" – 5:11
- "Going Is Song" – 3:41
2007 re-release
The release includes new versions of the tracks "La Dame et la licorne," "Red Sea, Black Sea," "Seventy-four, Seventy-five," "Johnny Viola," and "Hail Mary," remastered versions of the other tracks retained from the original 2006 release, and a bonus CD containing demos and miscellaneous tracks.
Disk 1
- "La Dame et la Licorne" – 5:27
- "Red Sea, Black Sea" – 3:09
- "White Waves" – 4:20
- "Palo Santo" – 3:48
- "Seventy-four, Seventy-five" – 3:24
- "Nobody" – 3:01
- "Sing, Little Birdie" – 3:10
- "Johnny Viola" – 2:29
- "Failed Queen" – 5:50
- "Hail, Mary" – 6:16
- "Going Is Song" – 3:42
Disk 2
- "My Only Boy" - 4:39
- "Every Hook, Every Eye" - 2:20
- "Special Rider Blues" (Skip James Cover) - 5:21
- "Sing, Little Birdie" (Demo) - 3:05
- "Palo Santo" (Demo) - 3:45
- "Discontinuities" - 3:41
- "Red Sea, Black Sea" (Demo) - 3:10
- "Failed Queen" (Demo) - 6:27
References
- AllMusic review
- Costa, Maddy (20 October 2006). "CD: Shearwater, Palo Santo". the Guardian.
- "Shearwater: Palo Santo Album Review - Pitchfork". pitchfork.com.
- acbradick. "Shearwater - Palo Santo Album Review - Prefixmag.com".
- Times, The New York (May 29, 2006). "New CD's" – via NYTimes.com.
- "Shearwater | Biography & History". AllMusic.
- "Album Review: Shearwater - Palo Santo (re-release)". DrownedInSound. Archived from the original on 2021-06-17. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
- ""DiS Meets Jonathan Meiburg of Shearwater"". January 19, 2010. Archived from the original on June 16, 2021. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
- ""Shearwater Interview"". August 24, 2007.
- ""Shearwater's Jonathan Meiburg :: The AD Interview"". August 18, 2008.
- "Shearwater | NME". NME. August 29, 2007.