After four years of work, we’re thrilled to announce that our new album, “The New World”, will be released worldwide on July 31st. It’s a globe-spanning adventure for your ears, made with the wildest ensemble we’ve ever assembled.
To whet your appetite, we’re releasing two tracks today: the grand “Daydream Unbeliever,” and the ethereal “More and More.” They were recorded in Dripping Springs, Brooklyn, London, and Berlin by Dan Duszynski, with additional engineering by Leo Abrahams and Boris Wilsdorf, and mixed by Danny Reisch.
“Daydream Unbeliever”, from the upcoming album “The New World”, out July 31st
Now they have shared the album’s fourth single, closing track “You and Your Dog,” which features guest vocals from Laurie Anderson. Shearwater is led by Jonathan Meiburg (also of Loma), and also includes Emily Lee and Dan Duszynski. Meiburg co-directed the video with Jason Benson.
“Laurie’s been a friend and hero of ours for a long time and when I wrote this story, it was easy to imagine in her voice,” Meiburg says in a press release. “I was thrilled when she agreed to perform it.”
“Daydream Unbeliever” featured Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart, who contributed strings and also smashed a gong. The album also features, as a press release puts it, “instrumental wizard Shahzad Ismaily, saxophonist and clarinetist Doug Wieselman, qanunist Farouz Zriek, guitarist Leo Abrahams, orngonist Mamadou Kouyate, percussionists Mahamadou Tounkara and Moctar Kouyate (of Malian group Ngoni Ba), and the unclassifiable drummer Thor Harris.”
The band crowdfunded and produced the album themselves, recording it in London, Berlin, New York, and the band’s native Texas. Duszynski was the chief engineer on the album, with additional production by Leo Abrahams and Danny Reisch (the latter mixed the album with the band in Los Angeles).
“The New World” Due Out This Friday via Polyborus and Secretly Distribution
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