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█ ARTIST: Shearwater █
█ TITLE: Animal Joy █
█ LABEL: Sub Pop █
█ GENRE: Indie █
█ BITRATE: 243kbps avg █
█ PLAYTIME: 0h 43min total █
█ RELEASE DATE: 2012-00-00 █
█ RIP DATE: 2012-02-11 █
█ URL: █
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█ 01. Animal Life 3:38 █
█ 02. Breaking The Yearlings 3:08 █
█ 03. Dread Sovereign 3:50 █
█ 04. You As You Were 3:42 █
█ 05. Insolence 6:24 █
█ 06. Immaculate 2:26 █
█ 07. Open Your Houses (Basilisk) 3:24 █
█ 08. Run The Banner Down 2:50 █
█ 09. Pushing The River 4:32 █
█ 10. Believing Makes It Easy 4:11 █
█ 11. Star Of The Age 5:01 █
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█ From the label: █
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█ We at Sub Pop are exceedingly proud to present ShearwaterÆs Animal Joy, █
█ our first album by the band and their eighth overall. Led by Jonathan █
█ Meiburg, and featuring drummer Thor Harris, and bassist Kimberly Burke, █
█ Shearwater has been a favorite at Sub Pop HQ for many years. Why? Fellow █
█ Shearwater fan Gerard Cosloy puts it nicely: █
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█ ôItÆs been suggestedùby fans, detractors, even by the bandÆs █
█ founderùthat Shearwater and whatever we call █
█ underground/indie/whatever-rock in this part of the century are not an █
█ obvious fit. And thatÆs true. So much of what we hear these days (the █
█ lousy stuff, anyway) is willfully insular; Jonathan MeiburgÆs songs, by █
█ contrast, have constantly tackled bigger questions and been propelled by █
█ massive musical ambitions. █
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█ WeÆre in an era in which minimalism and lower-than-low-tech have come in █
█ vogue. By contrast, ShearwaterÆs recordingsùthe epic ôIsland Arcö █
█ trilogy of Palo Santo, Rook and The Golden Archipelago in █
█ particularùhave been expansive in a fashion like none of their █
█ contemporaries. On Animal Joy, Meiburg has opted to ditch an approach █
█ that paid huge artistic dividends over his last three Matador albums for █
█ a record that seems shockingly direct, immediate and intensely personal. █
█ HeÆs no stranger to lush, crafted recordings, but this one sounds like █
█ no prior Shearwater incarnation. █
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█ SomeoneÆs bound to label this ShearwaterÆs transitional album, but to █
█ these ears, it sounds like a thrilling artistic rebirth. Just give Æem █
█ the fucking Grammy already!ö █
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