Even voorstellen – Shearwater – new album, ‘the new world’
SHEARWATER ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM THE NEW WORLD
OUT JULY 31ST, 2026 VIA POLYBORUS
Daydream Unbeliever: https://youtu.be/iqfqt1XYuds
More and More: https://youtu.be/Ur3TBShGKZA
Shearwater announced today that their new album, The New World, will be released on July 31st, 2026, via the band’s own Polyborus label in partnership with Secretly Distribution. The band of Jonathan Meiburg, Emily Lee, and Dan Duszynski also shared the album’s two lead singles, the epic “Daydream Unbeliever” and the soulful “More and More,” which find the band in top form: stirring but ineffable, intimate but widescreen. “If you’re like us, you wake up feeling like the world’s on fire, and hoping you could reckon with it if you knew where to begin,” says Meiburg. “‘Daydream Unbeliever’ and ‘More and More’ come from this uneasy place. If they help you feel a little less insane, welcome home.”
“Daydream Unbeliever” billows out with classic Shearwater grandeur, including soaring strings and a gong smashed by Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart; its video was filmed and edited by Meiburg during research in Antarctica. But “More and More” is a journey inward: church bells and birds recorded in Berlin give way to a song about escaping paralysis. There’s a feeling of gently building pressure and widening scope as a halting piano becomes a wild, insistent forest of strange and beautiful sounds, including a qanun, a cello squeezed through a Leslie cabinet, and a 12-string guitar that sounds like it’s 20 feet tall.
In the past quarter-century, those in the know have watched Shearwater slyly become one of the most distinctive, consistent, and adventurous American bands. The New World’s nine immersive songs find the group farther afield than ever: the album’s supporting cast includes instrumental wizard Shahzad Ismaily, saxophonist and clarinetist Doug Wieselman, qanunist Farouz Zriek, guitarist Leo Abrahams, ngonist Mamadou Kouyate, percussionists Mahamadou Tounkara and Moctar Kouyate (of Malian group Ngoni Ba), and the unclassifiable drummer Thor Harris. That might sound like a lot of passengers, but they’re ideal company for a headlong, globe-spanning journey through joy, confusion, defiance, reverence, and tenderness, with Meiburg’s voice as a graceful yet elusive guide. Both spare and ornate, The New World is deeply absorbing; it’s hard not to listen to the end once you drop in.
The New World is also an artistic risk. After releasing six albums with Sub Pop and Matador Records, Shearwater chose to crowdfund, produce, and release the album themselves with the help of Secretly Distribution, distilling it from four years of traveling, fieldwork, and collaboration. It was recorded in London, Berlin, New York, and the band’s Texas headquarters, with Duszynski as chief engineer and additional production by Leo Abrahams and Danny Reisch; Reisch mixed the album with the band in Los Angeles.
The New World LP
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