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Funding Successful

This project successfully raised its funding goal on January 31, 2010.

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Pledge $35 or more and choose one of the following: (1) A “Rooks” seven-inch, with the B-side of “The Rainbow,” a live Talk Talk cover unavailable anywhere else. (2)Rook poster (3) Palo Santo promotional sampler CD, with five selected tracks from the album

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Pledge $50 or more and choose any one of the $35 gifts, as well as one of the following: (1) Discontinued original Palo Santo CD release, featuring alternate versions of several songs. (2) Out-of-print I Eat Records compilation from 2004, featuring unreleased Shearwater track “Professor Nightmare” - also contains a Thor solo track and a rare Okkervil cover of the Orange Mothers song “Nancy," featuring Kim on upright bass. (3) Out-of-print Preserve compilation featuring unreleased Shearwater song “Remember the Tiger." (4) CD of Shearwater’s VPRO (Amsterdam) session from 2004 (including the first live performance of “Hail Mary”) (5) Any one of the following t-shirts: (a) Green Hippo Eating Crocodile w/ “Shearwater” logo: Available in GM, S, M, L, XL (b) Grey “Sea Serpent Fishing” design (no band name): Available in GM, S, M, L (c) Dark Grey “Shearwater” logo with flying crows: Available in GM, S, M (d) Everybody Makes Mistakes t-shirt: Available in Navy or Light Blue in M (not AA) (e) Bats image designed by our drummer Thor in Kelly Green: Available in GM, S, M, L (f) Small, cute “monster” image designed by Thor in Red or Golden Yellow: Available in GM, M

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Pledge $100 or more and receive any one of the $35 gifts, any one of the $50 gifts, and one of the following original Shearwater artifacts or CDs (available until otherwise noted): (1) Rook studio notes: a set of tracking sheets, elaborately and inscrutably color-coded, denoting the completion of various tracks and instruments. These sheets hung on the wall in the studio during the making of Rook and were much scribbled-on. Also included are a set of track sheets from one of the master reels, and a score for the song “Home Life” used by the string and wind players during the session. (2) EMM notebook: A handwritten notebook kept by the band during the making of the second album. Full of drawings, lyrics, and production notes. Also crammed with press clippings and other ephemera from the earliest days of the band. (3) The Dissolving Room CD, the rare first Shearwater album, recorded in three days in an abandoned building (now demolished) in 1999. (These are the last remaining copies from this pressing).

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If you’re the first to pledge over $150, you can receive the very last copy of the rare and out-of-print Sham Wedding/Hoax Funeral Split EP with Okkervil River.

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Hailed as "almost impossibly majestic and beautiful" (NPR), Shearwater's Palo Santo (2007, Matador), a suite of ethereal but disquieting art-rock centered around the life and death of the singer Nico, marked the Texan quintet's debut on the national stage. The New York Times named the album one of the year's best, and the band's singular combination of sonic abandon and restraint drew comparisons to late-period Talk Talk and Eno's early solo work. Last year's much-lauded Rook (2008, Matador) took the band into realms both richer and stranger, with a depth and grandeur that seem improbably packed into the album's tidy 35 minutes and a haunting examination of the continuing erosion of the natural world.

Shearwater's third album for Matador, The Golden Archipelago, is set for release in the US on February 23, 2010. This time, the band have created a lush, fevered portrait of life on islands, based partly on Meiburg's extensive travels to remote places, and the depth and clarity of their previous albums adorns a fierce new urgency and wildness. In conjunction with the release of Shearwater’s new album, The Golden Archipelago, singer Jonathan Meiburg and designer Mark Ohe have assembled a beautiful, full-color, 75-page, 8 x 10.5” dossier as a companion piece (which is only available for purchase here on Kickstarter).

Band Members: Jonathan Meiburg, Thor Harris, Kimberly Burke, with Kevin Schneider and Jordan Geiger.

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