Okkervil River continue to break the glass between messy nerves and orchestrated elegance on their fourth full-length, Black Sheep Boy, titled after the lovely song penned by Tim Hardin with which the band opens the record. However, their take on the song feels a bit rushed and uneventful, which knocks the tender breath from the lyrics and presents a clumsy start. Opening the record this way is the singular yet major complaint of the album, ironically pushing "Black Sheep Boy," the intended cent   [ read more ]

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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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This is the definitive set which brings together Okkervil River's ground-breaking Black Sheep Boy project in its entirety - including the original album, the 7-song Black Sheep Boy Appendix EP and the song 'The Next Four Months' (originally released on the 'For Real' CD single), Enjoy this panoramic perspective of a modern masterpiece and one of the most critically acclaimed albums of the new millennium. Black Sheep Boy is Okkervil River's most ambitious and cinematic record to date   [ 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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This is the definitive double-disc set which brings together Okkervil River's ground-breaking Black Sheep Boy project in its entirety - including the original album, the 7-song Black Sheep Boy Appendix EP, the song "The Next Four Months" (originally released on the "For Real" CD single), the "For Real" video as well as a new video of a magical alternate slower take of "No Key, No Plan". Enjoy this panoramic perspective of a modern masterpiece and one of the most critically acclaimed albums of the ne   [ read more ]

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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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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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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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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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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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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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This is the tinderbox to the fantastical fire that is Black Sheep Boy, the much anticipated full-length record by Okkervil River, coming out in April 2005. The first track of this CD single, "For Real," appears on the full-length record. The second track, "The Next Four Months," is previously unreleased, while the third, "For the Enemy (Live)," is a very special recorded glimpse of Okkervil River performing live. Mojo said, "Singing with both the raw-throated urgency of Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst and    [ read more ]

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