About this Event

Shearwater

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Shearwater return to Bristol in support of their upcoming new album, ‘Jet Plane and Oxbow’, due for release on 22nd January 2016 through Sub Pop.



‘Jet Plane and Oxbow’, Shearwater’s second original full-length for Sub Pop, is their career-defining album—the leap forward those of us who’ve been watching them for years have always believed they would make. Lush, powerful, and grand, with a confident edge heard more often in their live shows than on record, it feels like the musical statement they’ve been working toward through five albums and a decade on the road.



This is definitely Shearwater’s loudest record; it’s easy to imagine these songs roaring from the stage. But it’s also, strangely, their most intricate and beautiful one. Front man Jonathan Meiburg and producer/engineer Danny Reisch spent two years crafting the record in studios in Austin and L.A., with help from drummer Cully Symington, longtime Shearwater associates Howard Draper and Lucas Oswald, and tourmates Abram Shook, Jesca Hoop and Jenn Wasner.



But their secret weapon this time is film composer and percussionist Brian Reitzell, whose credits include The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation, The Bling Ring, and 30 Days of Night. Reitzell’s arsenal of strange instruments and equipment emphasizes the album’s cinematic depth and scope.



The band begin touring in Europe in February 2016, and the United States in March.



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TICKETS:



£11adv | All Ages*



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* Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult and leave by midnight