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Mon 29th

The Luminaire presents
an album launch party
hosted by Fargo Records
JONATHAN MEIBURG
[of Shearwater & Okkervil River]
+ Luke Temple

Doors 8.00
£6 via WeGotTickets

No longer to be known as Okkervil River's "other band", Shearwater has transformed itself to the point of reinvention on 'Palo Santo', the band's fourth album, on Fargo Records.
The first Shearwater release to be made up entirely of songs by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Meiburg - playing an exclusive solo show at The Luminaire - 'Palo Santo' resembles previous Shearwater albums only incidentally, and Okkervil River less still.
[You can click here to download 'Seventy Four, Seventy Five' from the new album]
'Palo Santo' is a thrilling, paradoxical record; icily warm, welcoming and threatening, sloppy and immaculate. The austere folk that was a trademark of previous Shearwater records makes periodic appearances but thorny forests of static and distortion have sprouted up to occasionally obscure it. The band also channels previously unheard influences; the driving staccato piano of 'Seventy Four, Seventy Five' recalls early John Cale, and some of the record's more disorienting soundscapes could inhabit the same strange continent as Nico's Cale-produced classic 'Desertshore.'
'La Dame Et La Licorne' suggests Talk Talk covering 'Madman Across the Water'; 'Failed Queen' a grotty three-way orgy - circa 1970 - between the Velvet Underground, the Incredible String Band, and 'Meddle'-era Pink Floyd. 'White Waves' uncorks a swaggering and impressively heavy electric guitar riff, while 'Sing, Little Birdie' might be some forgotten 78 of an old standard, warbling through a morphine haze.
Jonathan will be supported by new Fargo signing, U.S. singer-songwriter Luke Temple. Luke's debut album will be released in August. He recently covered The Beatles' 'Dr Robert' for a Mojo special tribute CD to the album 'Revolver' due in June 2006.