The Great Awakening

Description

Shearwater’s seventh studio album, produced by the band and Dan Duszynski (Loma), chronicles what its leader, Jonathan Meiburg, has been through. While the booming songs of the band’s 2016 album *Jet Plane and Oxbow* (Sub Pop) were filled with fears for what the US was becoming under the previous administration, Jonathan resolved to find a new approach for *The Great Awakening*. He felt despair, but didn’t want to make music that offered no hope. *The Great Awakening* is an immersive, soulful journey of expansive atmospheres and intimate sonic landscapes, augmented by field recordings made while writing his critically acclaimed first book, *A Most Remarkable Creature* (Knopf, 2021). The resulting 11-track album—anchored by his closely-recorded voice, stranger and more urgent than ever—is one Shearwater has been working towards for years: a journey into the unknown, embracing sorrow and joy, beauty and terror.