Clinic + Shearwater
Description
For Clinic, see Album reviews. It's hard to resist the angelic nature of Jonathan Meiburg's voice. The singer-songwriter came to light as part of the Austin, Texas–based Okkervil River, playing accordion and sharing frontline duties with Will Sheff. Shearwater began as an offshoot for the pair but has grown to be more than a mere tributary. The quintet, which is touring behind its upcoming Matador release, Rook, aspires to the tortured pristine gorgeousness of a certain kind of chamber rock—rooted in the yearning, viola-plucking side of the Velvet Underground, for one—occasionally fuzzed up by bits of distortion and electro-blurt.
