Shear Water - Palo Santo

Shearwater has transformed itself to the point of reinvention on Palo Santo, the band's fourth album. The first Shearwater release to be made up entirely of songs by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Meiburg, Palo Santo resembles previous Shearwater albums only incidentally. It's a thrilling, paradoxical record – icily warm, welcoming and threatening, sloppy and immaculate – and one which NPR called "impossibly majestic and beautiful" in naming it the best record of 2006.

1. Dame et La Licorne

2. Red Sea, Black Sea

3. White Waves

4. Palo Santo

5. Seventy-Four, Seventy-Five

6. Nobody

7. Sing, Little Birdie

8. Johnny Viola

9. Failed Queen

10. Hail, Mary

11. Going Is Song

12. My Only Boy

13. Every Hook, Every Eye

14. Special Rider Blues

15. Sing, Little Birdie

16. Palo Santo

17. Discontinuities

18. Red Sea, Black Sea

19. Failed Queen

20. Lilacs

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