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Okay, a final FINAL footnote to the series of Shearwater posts. When the band rolled into the AV Club studios in March 2016, it actually wasn’t to perform the entirety of Lodger, as they did for eventual release. Their intended contribution to the Undercover series was to do this Bauhaus cover which is actually even […]
We’ll call this a chaser to my previous two posts detailing Shearwater’s stepping into the Thin White Duke’s shoes for a few years; a series of articles detailing frontman Jonathan Meiburg’s deep fascination with all things David Bowie. First off, an essay/review at Talkhouse from March 2013 about Bowie’s penultimate record, The Next Day wherein […]
As impressive as a live-to-tape recital of Bowie’s Lodger was, it would be only the preamble to Shearwater’s greatest Bowie tribute. And the irony is that, relative to the modern-day benchmark of every bit of media being free to everyone, everywhere, you can’t hear it. The “what” of it was a series of three concerts […]
As a band more frequently placed in the folk-prog end of the indie rock spectrum, Shearwater‘s David Bowie comparisons don’t go much further than Jonathan Meiburg’s astonishing voice. But circa their 2016 record Jet Plane and Oxbow, they took more direct influence from The Thin White Duke. Political art can be such a tricky thing. […]
“Absolute Beginners” is one of my favourite Bowie songs, and one I fear gets unjustly overlooked in the general “everything after ‘Scary Monsters’ is bad” narrative that gets applied to his ’80s output. I mean, yes, his studio albums of the era aren’t great, but if you get into the singles and soundtrack contributions, there’s […]
