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April 20, 2012
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Animal Joy
Shearwater
The beauty and force of nature is a sobering subject, but Shearwater mastered it in one fell swoop with this album. Following a gorgeous trilogy -- Palo Santo, Rook and The Golden Archipelago -- Animal Joy carries on this tradition at an even more intense pace. In keeping with the album's title, the band's instruments seem to manifest as carnal creatures: A piano purrs and pounds, strings groan and hiss, guitars pounce and squeal, drums thump and throb. Still, vocalist Jonathan Meiburg cuts through the chaos with that chilling falsetto, hollering cryptic lyrics like, "I am leaving the life!"

Go Shoot Yourself Shearwater

by Rhapsody TV

Time now for another installment of Go Shoot Yourself, in which we give a band we love a Flip cam and let 'em film whatever they want for a day or so. Your guides this time are Texas-via-Ohio heartland rockers Shearwater, live from Austin, Have fun.

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[On the Record](http://www.rhapsody.com/blog/on-the-record/) is a video series where rock stars gush about their favorite records -- in exactly 45 seconds. Click above to watch [Shearwater](http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.792) give it up for [Talk Talk](http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.1891).

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