valrus
A real grower. Shades of Talk Talk's "Laughing Stock" but definitely uniquely Shearwater. A huge about-face from their last album, clearly informed by their instrumental pandemic albums and maybe by Jonathan Meiburg's more subdued work with Loma: this is ponderous, laconic, oblique, at times dissonant and off-putting... but also brilliant, beautiful, moving. Maybe their best? But it's so different that it's impossible to compare.
Favorite track: Xenarthran.