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- Summary: The first full-length release in six years for Austin indie rock band Shearwater was co-produced with Dan Duszynski.
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- Record Label: BWSCD
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock
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Jun 13, 2022It's a dark, gorgeous, twisted, spine-tingling experience that is able to pull off such a decelerated pace because it owns that pace entirely, injecting it with haunting rhythms and naturalistic beauty.
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Jun 21, 2022Shearwater have crafted their most resolute, or shall we say Shearwatery, effort to date.
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Classic Rock MagazineJun 30, 2022He now sounds much calmer, serene even, on Shearwater's tenth, which floats where 2016's Jet Plane And Oxbow raged. This never means it's predictable. [Summer 2022, p.78]
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Jun 14, 2022Balancing stately pop ornamentation with more bombastically orchestrated moments, the album allows Meiburg to both indulge and scale back his dramaturgical impulses.
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Jun 13, 2022The run of “Milkweed,” “Detritivore,” and “Aqaba” is quintessential Shearwater in both their titles and the tendency to let the middle of their albums coast by like a warm, welcome breeze.
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Jun 13, 2022There are at least a handful of worthwhile inclusions here, and Shearwater’s overarching purpose is admirable. Regrettably, though, good intentions don’t necessarily equate to good execution. For the most part, The Great Awakening is a plodding creation whose occasionally fascinating nuances and continually astute insights are marred by persistent musical tedium and hollowness.
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Jun 16, 2022Through it all, The Great Awakening feels like a far-off summer lightning storm: all low rumbles punctuated by occasional flashes of grandeur that tease something major awaiting without delivering a single drop of anything with impact.
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