- indie rock
- 38 min
- 10 tracks
- Matador
Rook is the fifth studio album by American indie rock band Shearwater. It was released on June 3, 2008, on the Matador Records label. The track "Rooks" was the first single from the album. The album was previewed on May 5, 2008, and May 29, 2008, at two special concerts in Manhattan and Austin, Texas. The band toured in support of the album later in 2008. The album gained the band a spot on Entertainment Weekly's "Must List" on May 28.
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Spare, grave, classical in form and character-led.
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
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Tracks
- 1On the Death of the Waters3:08
- 2Rooks3:21
- 3Leviathan, Bound2:52
- 4Home Life7:15
- 5Lost Boys2:25
- 6Century Eyes2:18
- 7I Was a Cloud5:13
- 8South Col2:35
- 9The Snow Leopard5:08
- 10The Hunter's Star4:01
10 tracks, 38 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Shearwater
- Label
- Matador
- Released
- June 3, 2008
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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