TRACKLIST

1. On the Death of the Waters  2. Rooks  3. Leviathan, Bound  4. Home Life  5. Lost Boys  6. Century Eyes  7. I Was a Cloud  8. South Col  9. The Snow Leopard 10. The Hunter's Star

REVIEW
Encompassing themes of mortality, the magnificent environment we live in, and even love itself, Rook is easily one of the best albums of the year. It ends how it begins - intimate and personal - and encompasses a myriad of other emotions in between. Hook-laden rockers rub elbows with affectingly genuine ballads. For Shearwater’s Jonathan Meiburg, deciding to leave his first band, Okkervil River (who also appear elsewhere on this list), this year was difficult. But what he and his bandmates accomplished with Rook is something both impressive and commendable. Mirroring the transformation of late-period Talk Talk, this is the kind of music initially known as post-rock and not the snore inducing crescendo crush of Mogwai’s wave of imitators.

SPOILER!

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