Everybody Makes Mistakes (Shearwater album)

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Everybody Makes Mistakes
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ReleasedOctober 1, 2002 (2002-10-01)
Genre Indie rock
Label Misra Records
Shearwater chronology
The Dissolving Room
(2001)
Everybody Makes Mistakes
(2002)
Winged Life
(2004)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Pitchfork 6.5/10 [2]
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Everybody Makes Mistakes is Shearwater's second full-length album. [4] It was released on October 1, 2002, on Misra Records.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "An Accident" (Jonathan Meiburg) – 2:31
  2. "Well, Benjamin" (Will Sheff) – 3:15
  3. "Soon" (Jonathan Meiburg) – 2:33
  4. "Room for Mistakes" (Will Sheff) – 4:30
  5. "12:09" (Jonathan Meiburg) – 3:25
  6. "Mistakes" (Will Sheff) – 2:17
  7. "The Ice Covered Everything" (Jonathan Meiburg) – 3:20
  8. "You Took Your Mistakes Too Hard" (Jonathan Meiburg) – 1:48
  9. "Wreck" (Will Sheff) – 3:13
  10. "Safeway" (Will Sheff) – 3:40
  11. "All the Black Days 1" (Jonathan Meiburg) – 1:22
  12. "All the Black Days 2" (Jonathan Meiburg) – 4:23

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References

  1. Allmusic review
  2. "Shearwater: Everybody Makes Mistakes". Pitchfork.
  3. "Shearwater - Everybody Makes Mistakes". March 1, 2003.
  4. "Shearwater: Everybody Makes Mistakes Album Review". www.austinchronicle.com.