Shearwater: Animal Joy – review

(Sub Pop)It may be called Animal Joy, but the seventh album from Texan trio Shearwater is a strenuously joyless experience. Every sinew of this muscular music sounds clenched and furiously tense. Frontman Jonathan Meiburg is preoccupied with ideas of change: the process of shifting from one stage in life to another; the strength of mind required to accept that some idea or relationship or perspective we once cherished has died. But if any fear or irresolution is suggested in his lyrics, his voic...

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