Singer and songwriter JONATHAN MEIBURG formed Shearwater in 2001 along with OKKERVIL RIVER frontman WILL SHEFF, as an outlet for the quieter songs on which the two were working. But it wasn't long before Shearwater turned into something else. ‘Palo Santo’ is the first Shearwater record in which Meiburg is handling lead vocal duties on his own, and his
empassioned expressionism is as much overwhelming as it is potent.

Each of the songs resonates with desperation, the most immediate example of this being the album’s magnetic opening track, “La dame et la Licorne”, its introspective energies are offset by the rousing “Red Sea, Black Sea” and later, “Johnny Viola”: the former owing much to the classic, slanted Americana pop of R.E.M and the latter, THE REPLACEMENTS.

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