Palo Santo | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | May 9, 2006 | |||
Genre | Indie rock | |||
Label | Misra Records | |||
Shearwater chronology | ||||
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2007 Re-release Cover | ||||
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
The Guardian | [2] |
Pitchfork Media | (7.6/10) [3] |
Prefix | (8.0/10) [4] |
Palo Santo is an album by Shearwater, released in 2006 on Misra Records. [5] [6] The album was re-released in an expanded, partly re-recorded, fully remastered and repackaged edition in 2007 on Matador Records. [7] The album was inspired by the life and death of the singer Nico; [8] [9] [10] Jonathan Meiburg mentions this on the album The Island Arc Live (Excerpts), in a recording from Shearwater's January 15, 2011, performance at Austin's Central Presbyterian Church.
The New York Times wrote that "this is one of the year's best indie-rock albums ... These 11 flickering — and hummable — songs tell a desperate but not quite decipherable story." [5] NME called the album "both magnificent and bewildering," writing that "meandering piano and plucked banjo laments wind towards dramatic crescendos, songs fracture and split as if powered by dream logic." [11]
All tracks composed by Jonathan Meiburg (except "Special Rider Blues"). [1]
The release includes new versions of the tracks "La Dame et la licorne," "Red Sea, Black Sea," "Seventy-four, Seventy-five," "Johnny Viola," and "Hail Mary," remastered versions of the other tracks retained from the original 2006 release, and a bonus CD containing demos and miscellaneous tracks.
Palo Santo | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | May 9, 2006 | |||
Genre | Indie rock | |||
Label | Misra Records | |||
Shearwater chronology | ||||
| ||||
2007 Re-release Cover | ||||
Review scores | |
---|---|
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
The Guardian | [2] |
Pitchfork Media | (7.6/10) [3] |
Prefix | (8.0/10) [4] |
Palo Santo is an album by Shearwater, released in 2006 on Misra Records. [5] [6] The album was re-released in an expanded, partly re-recorded, fully remastered and repackaged edition in 2007 on Matador Records. [7] The album was inspired by the life and death of the singer Nico; [8] [9] [10] Jonathan Meiburg mentions this on the album The Island Arc Live (Excerpts), in a recording from Shearwater's January 15, 2011, performance at Austin's Central Presbyterian Church.
The New York Times wrote that "this is one of the year's best indie-rock albums ... These 11 flickering — and hummable — songs tell a desperate but not quite decipherable story." [5] NME called the album "both magnificent and bewildering," writing that "meandering piano and plucked banjo laments wind towards dramatic crescendos, songs fracture and split as if powered by dream logic." [11]
All tracks composed by Jonathan Meiburg (except "Special Rider Blues"). [1]
The release includes new versions of the tracks "La Dame et la licorne," "Red Sea, Black Sea," "Seventy-four, Seventy-five," "Johnny Viola," and "Hail Mary," remastered versions of the other tracks retained from the original 2006 release, and a bonus CD containing demos and miscellaneous tracks.