Shearwater - Jet Plane And Oxbow (Sub Pop) 2016
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Straight-forward, lush and powerful. Three simple words that help to define Shearwater’s most diverse and rich effort ever. Jet Plane and Oxbow, the band’s second full-length for Sub Pop, is an inventive and loud pop art-rock effort. Shearwater’s frontman Jonathan Meiburg said that this is a protest record, songs like “Quiet Americans” and “Only Child” are clearly a perfect example of that, everything sounds urgent and angry, there is a deep sense that something is breaking and we desperately need a change. Jet Plane and Oxbow sound is strong and well-crafted, everything sounds bigger and brighter, film composer and percussionist Brian Reitzell was the “secret weapon” into this whole depth and cinematic way of portraying both darkness and light, key elements that allow us to go deep into this Talking Heads meets Bowie classic esque disconcerting and structured effort. This is Shearwater’s finest album to date.