411 Mania — This week's MBML has news on Odd Future and Bowerbirds. Also, I've got new downloads and music videos featuring La Sera, Vaura, Shearwater, and Miracle Fortress. Plus, I'll give you a new artist to keep your eyes on and music recommendations worth ... more info

DrownedInSound — A week today (February 27) DiS favourites Shearwater released their new record, Animal Joy, through Sub Pop. Now you can listen to it in full, via the SoundCloud player below. Is it as good as the last one? Or even the one before that? You decide. ... more info

Stereogum — Shearwater’s Animal Joy is our Album Of The Week, and today the band came through with the video for album standout “Breaking The Yearlings,” a clip that finds Jonathan Meiburg hallucinating inside a natural history museum. The video then takes... more info

Stereogum — Shearwater’s last three albums, the ones that brought the Austin band to prominence, all made up parts of a loose overarching concept-album trilogy, one that had something to do with islands and bird-migration patterns and general isolation. Once a... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Shearwater's Animal Joy is already at the top of my 2012 favorite albums list (along with Sharon Van Etten's Tramp, released last week). Other albums I can wholeheartedly recommend this week include Heartless Bastards' Arrow, Islands' A Sleep &... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Frankie Rose releases Interstellar this month (2/21) and as Bill points out, she's left the garage pop of her debut behind in favor of synthy, jangly pop. It's a huge step up from her last album and you can... more info

Chorus.fm — *Shearwater (http://www.absolutepunk.net/tags/sherwater/)*'s new album Animal Joy can be heard here (http://www.npr.org/series/98679384/first-listen?ps=mh_fl). Submitted by manorastroman more info

Stereogum — Shearwater’s new album is out next week, and we’ve already heard three quite-nice takes from that affair, “You As You Were,” “Breaking The Yearlings” and “Animal Joy.” And now, as part of NPR’s first listen, Animal Joy is streaming ... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — NPR is streaming the new Shearwater album, Animal Joy (out February 14th). Alan Hollinghurst talks to The Australian about his latest novel, The Stranger's Child. "I think I always play games with putting bits of myself in different (characters)," Ho... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Shearwater's songs about man's relationship with nature boom and swoop with epic grace and grandeur. The new Animal Joy pairs singer Jonathan Meiburg's brainy proclamations with brawny, searching arrangements. Shearwater's new album... more info