Shearwater - Palo Santo (Bonus CD) (Exp) (Dig)
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Artist: ShearwaterEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks
CD Release Date: 2007-04-10
Music Label: Matador Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- La Dame Et Lla Licorne
- Red Sea,Black Sea
- White Waves
- Palo Santo
- Seventy-Four,Seventy-Five
- Nobody
- Sing ,Little Birdie
- Johnny Viola
- Failed Queen
- Hail, Mary
- Going Is Song
- My Only Boy
- Every Hook,Every Eye
- Special Rider Blues (Skip James)
- Sing, Little Birdie
- Palo Santo
- Discontinuities
- Red Sea,Black Sea
- Failed Queen
Free Music Notes for Palo Santo (Bonus CD) (Exp) (Dig)
Free Music Review: Brilliant reimagining of a classic.
Hit: 5 Stars
I'll admit, when I heard that Shearwater was planning to not only remaster and rerelease "Palo Santo" as part of their new deal with Matador Records, but also re-record half of the album, I was apprehensive, to put it mildly. The original was an undeniable classic, unlike anything I've heard in a long time..."OK Computer" was probably the last record that affected me in a similar way.
But then I read comments from Jonathan Meiburg (composer and vocalist on all 11 tracks) stating their reasoning for revisiting the album, and it did make sense, given the dissatisfaction the band had with the original recordings, not to mention the apparent serious mastering problems. And now that I hear the new version, I know I'll probably never listen to the original again. The new recordings ("La Dame", "Red Sea", "Seventy Four", "Johnny Viola", and "Hail, Mary") are so much more powerful than their year-old counterparts, and the other 6 tracks take on a whole new dimension now that they've been properly mastered. The instrumentation is so much clearer and more spacious now...the songs breathe in a way they weren't allowed to before. For me, the most dramatic improvement comes in the form of Thor Harris' Bonham-esque drumming...the drum sound is HUGE now.
I loved this record before, but now it's well into my all-time favorites list. Do yourself a favor and pick up this record now!
Palo Santo (Bonus CD) (Exp) (Dig) Poster
Once a side project of the woefully underappreciated Okkervil River, Shearwater's Palo Santo staggered enough listeners upon its initial 2006 release that singer and bandleader Jonathan Meiburg re-recorded much of the album for this expanded edition. The band has created a far more vivid, upfront, intense aural experience in the re-make. "Nobody" is still a brittle, eerie whisper (like the title track) with a wafting haze behind the guitar and voice, and "Seventy-Four, Seventy-Five" sports a ringing piano behind Meiburg's voice and a horn chart that recalls Neutral Milk Hotel. The most staggering moments find Meiburg going off the rails, bellowing where he once sang warm, yearning high-arcs?particularly in the album's stark opening moments and during "Hail, Mary," with its rush of electric pianos and hard-vamping thwacks as the singer barks across the top. Now Meiburg and Will Sheff need to balance their time--and their electric pianos, guitars, banjos, glockenspiels, and assorted scrabbling sounds between their magnificent other band, Okkervil River, and this tremendous ensemble. --Andrew BartlettAlternative Rock Music CDs
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