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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

A new Shearwater album—The New World—needs your help

Dear Friends of Shearwater, 

If you’ve seen us on social media in the last year or so, you’ve probably seen us making new music—and we’re happy to reveal that after two years of work, we’ve nearly finished a sprawling double-length album called The New World.

Album mockup for The New World, the new LP from Shearwater.

The good news is that we think it might be our very best work.  It’s deep, vibrant, and adventurous, and it features the biggest and wildest crew of friends and collaborators we’ve ever assembled on a Shearwater album.

But it’s not quite ready yet; and we need some help to usher it through its final stages and into the physical/digital worlds.

If you’re interested, there’s (a lot) more information on the crowdfunding page, along with incentives we’ve made to amuse and entice you, including some rarities from our archives.  And—as always—if you have any questions, or just want to say hello, please feel free to email us at contact@shearwatermusic.com.

But most of all: Thank you for believing in us, and sticking with us over many years.  We hope you’re keeping your head above water in these insane times, and look forward to sharing more music with you. 

JM / SW

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We’ve just hit a milestone I never imagined we would: we sold out of the digital versions of our epic live performance of David Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy.

But never fear: we’ve just purchased 100 more licenses from the songs’ copyright holders - so those 100 copies will be for sale on our bandcamp page this Bandcamp Friday.

This makes me a little misty; not only were those shows our last live performance to date, it feels like Mr Jones himself is high-fiving us from the great beyond.

These recordings are not available for streaming anywhere (except when WNYC/New Sounds re-airs them, as they’ve done once or twice). So the only way you can hear them is by purchasing them on our bandcamp page.

If you haven’t heard them, and would like to, all I can say is you’re in for a treat. Our all-star ensemble worked their tails off for these performances, and I’m really proud of them, even though it was an unusual detour for Shearwater.

JM

Link to our Bandcamp page in our bio #bandcampfriday #davidbowie

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We’ve just hit a milestone I never imagined we would: we sold out of the digital versions of our epic live  performance of David Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy. 

But never fear: we’ve just purchased 100 more licenses from the songs’ copyright holders - so those 100 copies will be for sale on our bandcamp page this Bandcamp Friday. 

This makes me a little misty; not only were those shows our last live performance to date, it feels like Mr Jones himself is high-fiving us from the great beyond. 

These recordings are not available for streaming anywhere (except when WNYC/New Sounds re-airs them, as they’ve done once or twice). So the only way you can hear them is by purchasing them on our bandcamp page. 

If you haven’t heard them, and would like to, all I can say is you’re in for a treat. Our all-star ensemble worked their tails off for these performances, and I’m really proud of them, even though it was an unusual detour for Shearwater. 

JM 

Link to our Bandcamp page in our bio #bandcampfriday #davidbowie

We’ve just hit a milestone I never imagined we would: we sold out of the digital versions of our epic live performance of David Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy.

But never fear: we’ve just purchased 100 more licenses from the songs’ copyright holders - so those 100 copies will be for sale on our bandcamp page this Bandcamp Friday.

This makes me a little misty; not only were those shows our last live performance to date, it feels like Mr Jones himself is high-fiving us from the great beyond.

These recordings are not available for streaming anywhere (except when WNYC/New Sounds re-airs them, as they’ve done once or twice). So the only way you can hear them is by purchasing them on our bandcamp page.

If you haven’t heard them, and would like to, all I can say is you’re in for a treat. Our all-star ensemble worked their tails off for these performances, and I’m really proud of them, even though it was an unusual detour for Shearwater.

JM

Link to our Bandcamp page in our bio #bandcampfriday #davidbowie
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It’s the final day of our Indiegogo campaign to fund our next record, The New World, which will be coming out next year thanks to your support.

We’ve still got some perks left if that’s your thing (a producer credit on the record, hand-typed lyrics to your favorite Shearwater song, one-of-a-kind LP test pressings, JPOB stage lights, and more).

We’ve been in the studio for most of the last few weeks, and we could not have done that without you. We have the best fans in the world. Thank you!

Link to the campaign in our bio! Stay tuned for more news about the record here as it happens.

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It’s the final day of our Indiegogo campaign to fund our next record, The New World, which will be coming out next year thanks to your support. 

We’ve still got some perks left if that’s your thing (a producer credit on the record, hand-typed lyrics to your favorite Shearwater song, one-of-a-kind LP test pressings, JPOB stage lights, and more).

We’ve been in the studio for most of the last few weeks, and we could not have done that without you. We have the best fans in the world. Thank you!

Link to the campaign in our bio! Stay tuned for more news about the record here as it happens.

It’s the final day of our Indiegogo campaign to fund our next record, The New World, which will be coming out next year thanks to your support.

We’ve still got some perks left if that’s your thing (a producer credit on the record, hand-typed lyrics to your favorite Shearwater song, one-of-a-kind LP test pressings, JPOB stage lights, and more).

We’ve been in the studio for most of the last few weeks, and we could not have done that without you. We have the best fans in the world. Thank you!

Link to the campaign in our bio! Stay tuned for more news about the record here as it happens.
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