New Shearwater Album Streaming on NPR

Continuing their "Exclusive First Listen" series, NPR Music (boasting a fancy new site design) is streaming The Golden Archipeligo, the new album from Austin's Shearwater. According to the news outlet, guitarist Jonathan Meiburg (also a member of Okkervil River) "assembled an elaborate and appropriately oblique 75-page "dossier" to go with deluxe editions of the record. Filled with maps, charts, art and photos, the dossier only enhances the otherworldly mystery of music that fuses instrumental majesty and natural beauty." Check it out here.