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The boys are already queuing the release of their new album, “The Golden Archipelago“, with a free download! Apart from being available as a single MP3 in 192Kbps, it’s available in lossless heavenly FLAC, with single artwork and “dossier pages” to boot! Here’s the coming album cover:

Here’s the track:

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The extravagant stuff you get when purchasing the album:

The CD comes packaged with a 50-page perfect-bound book that is a set of extracts from a dossier of records, photos, regulations and images collected by Shearwater’s Jonathan Meiburg. The LP contains 2 bonus tracks & an MP3 download coupon (that includes the album + PDF of the dossier). (Note: LP pre-orders will ALSO receive a copy of the CD-sized perfect bound book.)

Serious researchers will have a way to obtain the actual, full-sized, full-color 73-page dossier in its special envelope – this will be announced soon, so keep your eyes on this space.

“This space” being, of course, Shearwater’s page at Matador.

Enjoy the track, I know I will continue to for some time; it’s absolute lovely with Jonathan’s high notes and the foreground drums and bass hitting home instantly. These guys know their sound well. The song sounds hollow in some way, and I can’t help thinking of Talk Talk here, the English 80s band that Shearwater covered when doing “The Rainbow“. Still, the synths and the guitars in tune with the piano…lovely, I know I said it. Still, this is like coming home in a very good sense of the word.¹

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