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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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Dear Friends -

For the final week of the crowdfunding campaign for The New World, we’ve added a few more perks courtesy of our pal Mark Ohe, who sent us a care package of tour posters from our Matador and Sub Pop days.

We hadn’t seen some of these in many years; posters tend to get pretty beaten up on tours, or lost in the shuffle. But Mark O, bless him, had kept a few of them in one piece, and he signed ‘em too. (So did I).

Needless to say, we’re still a bit bewildered by the success of the campaign; we spent the last two weeks in the studio, and we’re getting close to landing this thing.

Thank you for making our dreams come true.

JM / SW

Link to our Indiegogo campaign in our bio

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Dear Friends - 

For the final week of the crowdfunding campaign for The New World, we’ve added a few more perks courtesy of our pal Mark Ohe, who sent us a care package of tour posters from our Matador and Sub Pop days.

We hadn’t seen some of these in many years; posters tend to get pretty beaten up on tours, or lost in the shuffle. But Mark O, bless him, had kept a few of them in one piece, and he signed ‘em too. (So did I).

Needless to say, we’re still a bit bewildered by the success of the campaign; we spent the last two weeks in the studio, and we’re getting close to landing this thing. 

Thank you for making our dreams come true. 

JM / SW 

Link to our Indiegogo campaign in our bio

Dear Friends -

For the final week of the crowdfunding campaign for The New World, we’ve added a few more perks courtesy of our pal Mark Ohe, who sent us a care package of tour posters from our Matador and Sub Pop days.

We hadn’t seen some of these in many years; posters tend to get pretty beaten up on tours, or lost in the shuffle. But Mark O, bless him, had kept a few of them in one piece, and he signed ‘em too. (So did I).

Needless to say, we’re still a bit bewildered by the success of the campaign; we spent the last two weeks in the studio, and we’re getting close to landing this thing.

Thank you for making our dreams come true.

JM / SW

Link to our Indiegogo campaign in our bio
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WHOA. Thank you so much for an incredible first day of fundraising for our next record. If you still want to contribute, go to the link in our bio for details. Thanks for all of your support.

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WHOA. Thank you so much for an incredible first day of fundraising for our next record. If you still want to contribute, go to the link in our bio for details. Thanks for all of your support.

WHOA. Thank you so much for an incredible first day of fundraising for our next record. If you still want to contribute, go to the link in our bio for details. Thanks for all of your support. ...

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