Palo Santo (Shearwater album)

Palo Santo is an album by Shearwater, released in 2006 on Misra Records.[5][6] The album was re-released in an expanded, partly re-recorded, fully remastered and repackaged edition in 2007 on Matador Records.[7] Jonathan Meiburg stated in Shearwater's January 15, 2011, performance at Austin's Central Presbyterian Church (a concert recorded for the band's live album The Island Arc) that the album is about Nico, the German singer who became famous with the Velvet Underground.

Palo Santo
Studio album by
Shearwater
ReleasedMay 9, 2006
GenreIndie rock
LabelMisra Records
Shearwater chronology
Thieves (EP)
(2005)		 Palo Santo
(2006)		 Rook
(2008)
2007 Re-release Cover
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Guardian[2]
Pitchfork Media(7.6/10)[3]
Prefix(8.0/10)[4]

Critical reception

The New York Times wrote that "this is one of the year's best indie-rock albums ... These 11 flickering — and hummable — songs tell a desperate but not quite decipherable story."[5] NME called the album "both magnificent and bewildering," writing that "meandering piano and plucked banjo laments wind towards dramatic crescendos, songs fracture and split as if powered by dream logic."[8]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Jonathan Meiburg (except "Special Rider Blues").[1]

2006 release
  1. "La Dame et la Licorne" – 5:19
  2. "Red Sea, Black Sea" – 2:58
  3. "White Waves" – 4:21
  4. "Palo Santo" – 3:45
  5. "Seventy-four, Seventy-five" – 3:21
  6. "Nobody" – 3:02
  7. "Sing, Little Birdie" – 3:10
  8. "Johnny Viola" – 2:30
  9. "Failed Queen" – 5:51
  10. "Hail, Mary" – 5:11
  11. "Going Is Song" – 3:41

2007 re-release

The release includes new versions of the tracks "La Dame et la licorne," "Red Sea, Black Sea," "Seventy-four, Seventy-five," "Johnny Viola," and "Hail Mary," remastered versions of the other tracks retained from the original 2006 release, and a bonus CD containing demos and miscellaneous tracks.

Disk 1
  1. "La Dame et la Licorne" – 5:27
  2. "Red Sea, Black Sea" – 3:09
  3. "White Waves" – 4:20
  4. "Palo Santo" – 3:48
  5. "Seventy-four, Seventy-five" – 3:24
  6. "Nobody" – 3:01
  7. "Sing, Little Birdie" – 3:10
  8. "Johnny Viola" – 2:29
  9. "Failed Queen" – 5:50
  10. "Hail, Mary" – 6:16
  11. "Going Is Song" – 3:42

Disk 2
  1. "My Only Boy" - 4:39
  2. "Every Hook, Every Eye" - 2:20
  3. "Special Rider Blues" (Skip James Cover) - 5:21
  4. "Sing, Little Birdie" (Demo) - 3:05
  5. "Palo Santo" (Demo) - 3:45
  6. "Discontinuities" - 3:41
  7. "Red Sea, Black Sea" (Demo) - 3:10
  8. "Failed Queen" (Demo) - 6:27

References
  1. AllMusic review
  2. Costa, Maddy (20 October 2006). "CD: Shearwater, Palo Santo". the Guardian.
  3. "Shearwater: Palo Santo Album Review - Pitchfork". pitchfork.com.
  4. acbradick. "Shearwater - Palo Santo Album Review - Prefixmag.com".
  5. Times, The New York (May 29, 2006). "New CD's" – via NYTimes.com.
  6. "Shearwater | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  7. "Album Review: Shearwater - Palo Santo (re-release)". DrownedInSound.
  8. "Shearwater | NME". August 29, 2007.
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