The haunting, slow burn of Shearwater's new EP, Thieves, will be the perfect accompaniment for long, lonely winter months ahead. Using a laundry list of instruments such as pump organ, Hammond organ, piano, violin, Wurlitzer, vibraphone, hammer dulcimer, Shearwater's dense sonic moments can envelop you like a warm wool sweater. Thieves is the follow-up to their 2004 full length, Winged Life, the album that Uncut praised, "as somber still as American Music Club, but now add more than a dash of Spirit of Eden-Talk Talk and a whole heap of 70s FM pop. Soft rock chamber music if you will... Like Devendra Banhart or Iron & Wine, Shearwater are capable of emotional resonance through the most brittle of arrangements. Stunning. ****" Featuring Jonthan Meiburg and Will Sheff of Okkervil River, Thieves follows a year full of US tours, that included dates with Blonde Redhead, Microphones, Magnolia Electric Co., Decibully, Richard Buckner, Joanna Newsom, Robyn Hitchcock and many other household names.

Shearwater is Jonathan Meiburg, Kim Burke, Will Sheff, Thor Harris, Travis Weller, Howard Draper

With Scott Danbom fiddle

Recorded at Echo Lab, Argyle TX