Palo Santo (Shearwater album)

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Palo Santo
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Studio album by
Shearwater
ReleasedMay 9, 2006
Genre Indie rock
Label Misra Records
Shearwater chronology
Thieves (EP)
(2005)		Palo Santo
(2006)		 Rook
(2008)
2007 Re-release Cover
Palo santo rerelease.jpg
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Pitchfork (7.6/10) [3]
Prefix(8.0/10) [4]

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.

Contents

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

  1. "La Dame et la Licorne" – 5:19
  2. "Red Sea, Black Sea" – 2:58
  3. "White Waves" – 4:21
  4. "Palo Santo" – 3:45
  5. "Seventy-four, Seventy-five" – 3:21
  6. "Nobody" – 3:02
  7. "Sing, Little Birdie" – 3:10
  8. "Johnny Viola" – 2:30
  9. "Failed Queen" – 5:51
  10. "Hail, Mary" – 5:11
  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

  1. "La Dame et la Licorne" – 5:27
  2. "Red Sea, Black Sea" – 3:09
  3. "White Waves" – 4:20
  4. "Palo Santo" – 3:48
  5. "Seventy-four, Seventy-five" – 3:24
  6. "Nobody" – 3:01
  7. "Sing, Little Birdie" – 3:10
  8. "Johnny Viola" – 2:29
  9. "Failed Queen" – 5:50
  10. "Hail, Mary" – 6:16
  11. "Going Is Song" – 3:42

Disk 2

  1. "My Only Boy" - 4:39
  2. "Every Hook, Every Eye" - 2:20
  3. "Special Rider Blues" (Skip James Cover) - 5:21
  4. "Sing, Little Birdie" (Demo) - 3:05
  5. "Palo Santo" (Demo) - 3:45
  6. "Discontinuities" - 3:41
  7. "Red Sea, Black Sea" (Demo) - 3:10
  8. "Failed Queen" (Demo) - 6:27

References

  1. 1 2 AllMusic review
  2. ↑ Costa, Maddy (October 20, 2006). "CD: Shearwater, Palo Santo". the Guardian.
  3. ↑ "Shearwater: Palo Santo Album Review - Pitchfork". pitchfork.com.
  4. ↑ Bradick, Andrew. "Shearwater - Palo Santo Album Review - Prefixmag.com". Archived from the original on December 13, 2006.
  5. 1 2 Times, The New York (May 29, 2006). "New CD's" – via NYTimes.com.
  6. ↑ "Shearwater | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  7. ↑ "Album Review: Shearwater - Palo Santo (re-release)". DrownedInSound. Archived from the original on June 17, 2021. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
  8. ↑ ""DiS Meets Jonathan Meiburg of Shearwater"". January 19, 2010. Archived from the original on June 16, 2021. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
  9. ↑ ""Shearwater Interview"". August 24, 2007.
  10. ↑ ""Shearwater's Jonathan Meiburg :: The AD Interview"". August 18, 2008.
  11. ↑ "Shearwater | NME". NME . August 29, 2007.
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