Palo Santo (Shearwater album)
Palo Santo is Shearwater's fourth full-length album, released on May 9, 2006, on Misra Records. The album was re-released in an expanded, partly re-recorded, fully remastered and repackaged edition on April 10, 2007, on the label Matador Records. Jonathan Meiburg stated in Shearwater's January 15, 2011, performance at Austin's Central Presbyterian Church (a concert recorded for the band's live album The Island Arc), that the album is about Nico, the German singer who became famous with the Velvet Underground.
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Released | May 9, 2006 | |||
Genre | Indie rock | |||
Label | Misra Records | |||
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2007 Re-release Cover | ||||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | |
The Guardian | |
Pitchfork Media | (7.6/10)[3] |
Prefix | (8.0/10)[4] |
Track listing
All tracks composed by Jonathan Meiburg (except "Special Rider Blues").[1]
2006 release
- "La Dame et la Licorne" – 5:19
- "Red Sea, Black Sea" – 2:58
- "White Waves" – 4:21
- "Palo Santo" – 3:45
- "Seventy-four, Seventy-five" – 3:21
- "Nobody" – 3:02
- "Sing, Little Birdie" – 3:10
- "Johnny Viola" – 2:30
- "Failed Queen" – 5:51
- "Hail, Mary" – 5:11
- "Going Is Song" – 3:41
2007 re-release
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.
Disk 1
- "La Dame et la Licorne" – 5:27
- "Red Sea, Black Sea" – 3:09
- "White Waves" – 4:20
- "Palo Santo" – 3:48
- "Seventy-four, Seventy-five" – 3:24
- "Nobody" – 3:01
- "Sing, Little Birdie" – 3:10
- "Johnny Viola" – 2:29
- "Failed Queen" – 5:50
- "Hail, Mary" – 6:16
- "Going Is Song" – 3:42
Disk 2
- "My Only Boy" - 4:39
- "Every Hook, Every Eye" - 2:20
- "Special Rider Blues" (Skip James Cover) - 5:21
- "Sing, Little Birdie" (Demo) - 3:05
- "Palo Santo" (Demo) - 3:45
- "Discontinuities" - 3:41
- "Red Sea, Black Sea" (Demo) - 3:10
- "Failed Queen" (Demo) - 6:27
External links
References
- AllMusic review
- Costa, Maddy (20 October 2006). "CD: Shearwater, Palo Santo". the Guardian.
- "Shearwater: Palo Santo Album Review - Pitchfork". pitchfork.com.
- acbradick. "Shearwater - Palo Santo Album Review - Prefixmag.com".