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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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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As the second single from The Stand Ins, 'Pop Lie' takes the meta-referential mission of Okkervil River to a new, distinctly pop level. Two additional tracks include an orphaned song from The Stage Names & The Stand Ins sessions called 'Millionaire', which displays the storyteller in front man Will Sheff rising to the surface in a soaring acoustic piano-laden shuffle. Also included is an alternate, slowed down, fuzzed up version of 'Pop Lie'.

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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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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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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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