VINYL FORMAT. With their newest release, The Stage Names, Okkervil River dynamite the walls of Black Sheep Boy's gothic, moss-walled castle from the inside to let in the glaring sun. Riddled with characters real and fake, with true-life biography and brazenly fabricated autobiography, with the relics of high culture and the crumpled-up trash of low culture, The Stage Names is a cinemascopic take on the meaning of entertainment. And, crucially, it entertains. Written on the beds and beat   [ read more ]

LP $12.99

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Don't Fall in Love With Everyone You See, Okkervil River's second full-length record and first for Jagjaguwar, is the follow-up to their 1999 self-released debut Stars Too Small to Use. The Austin Chronicle duly called this first record "a remarkable mix of frenetic stringwork and smart, narrative lyrics...the songs [are] a constant challenge to the senses and sensibilities of the attentive." Continuing on the same path, the new record gilds principal songwriter Will Robinson Sheff's literate    [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. The sequel to 2007's critically acclaimed The Stage Names, which Pitchfork praised as "one of the year's best," is part two of a staggered double album, picking up where part one left off, but delving deeper into the story and theme of The Stage Names. "Will Sheff sings like he's on fire but writes like a novelist, reeling off memorable images with an ease that belies his craftsmanship" - Harp.

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Insound LP+MP3! Purchase the vinyl format of Black Sheep Boy and you'll receive a link to download the MP3s for free immediately after check-out! VINYL FORMAT. Black Sheep Boy is Okkervil River's most ambitious and cinematic record yet, a love story and adult fable that evokes the mature songcraft of Leonard Cohen's 'New Skin for the Old Ceremony', the sophistication of Scott Walker's 'Scott 4', the shambling slow-motion bravado of Neil Young's 'On the Beach', and the raw ner   [ read more ]

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Okkervil River's Down the River of Golden Dreams takes the band's hallmarks -- lush, eclectic orchestration that evokes chamber pop and soul, lapel-gripping emotional urgency, and the lyrical, direct songwriting of frontman Will Sheff -- and expands and elevates them in service of a stunningly ambitious set of new songs. If last year's Don't Fall in Love with Everyone You See was the middle of the darkest night of the year, Down the River of Golden Dreams is the earliest light of a morn   [ read more ]

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With their newest release, The Stage Names, Okkervil River dynamite the walls of Black Sheep Boy's gothic, moss-walled castle from the inside to let in the glaring sun. Riddled with characters real and fake, with true-life biography and brazenly fabricated autobiography, with the relics of high culture and the crumpled-up trash of low culture, The Stage Names is a cinemascopic take on the meaning of entertainment. And, crucially, it entertains. Written on the beds and beat-up couches of   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. The President's Dead is the first release by Okkervil River since 2005's masterful Black Sheep Boy project. Having spent most of 2005 touring and writing, the band and Jagjaguwar wanted to get this single out before 2006 came to a close. Locked in the grooves of this limited-edition vinyl-only release is what might be Okkervil River's most accessible and most contentious song, "The President's Dead." A two-minute and forty-two second serving of alternative historical fiction camouflaged as a f   [ read more ]

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Okkervil River's Black Sheep Boy Appendix is not just a companion piece to their critically-acclaimed 2005 release; it's also a condensed, alternate vision of that record's imagery and themes, with the ultimate intent to exhaust and destroy both. This ambitious mini-album rounds up and reworks the band's favorite unfinished songs (tracked for the Black Sheep Boy full-length) and then punctuates and bookends them in brand-new compositions; in the process, it shows songwriter Will Sheff and comp   [ read more ]

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Insound LP+MP3! Purchase the vinyl format of Don't Fall in Love with Everyone You See and you'll receive a link to download the MP3s for free immediately after check-out! VINYL FORMAT. Don't Fall in Love With Everyone You See, Okkervil River's second full-length record and first for Jagjaguwar, is the follow-up to their 1999 self-released debut Stars Too Small to Use. The Austin Chronicle duly called this first record "a remarkable mix of frenetic stringwork and smart,   [ read more ]

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The sequel to 2007's critically acclaimed The Stage Names, which Pitchfork praised as "one of the year's best," is part two of a staggered double album, picking up where part one left off, but delving deeper into the story and theme of The Stage Names. "Will Sheff sings like he's on fire but writes like a novelist, reeling off memorable images with an ease that belies his craftsmanship" - Harp.[ read more ]

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Insound LP+MP3! Purchase the vinyl format of Down the River of Golden Dreams and you'll receive a link to download the MP3s for free immediately after check-out! VINYL FORMAT. Okkervil River's Down the River of Golden Dreams takes the band's hallmarks -- lush, eclectic orchestration that evokes chamber pop and soul, lapel-gripping emotional urgency, and the lyrical, direct songwriting of frontman Will Sheff -- and expands and elevates them in service of a stunningly ambitious   [ read more ]

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This Okkervil River shirt with a "Wheat Paintbrush" design is a size medium and printed on a sand, 100% cotton American Apparel t-shirt. The Insound 20 is an exclusive merch design project pairing Jason Munn (www.thesmallstakes.com) with 20 of Insound's favorite bands. The products are all limited edition. [ read more ]

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