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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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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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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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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On Sleep and Wake-Up Songs, Okkervil River and principal songwriter Will Sheff take advantage of a break between albums to present a small collection of five more meditative songs that toss little boomerangs across the distance between what is and what could never be. They try on a loose-fitting felt suit of Tim Hardin-esque folk-pop, wade until soaked into a misty psychedelic duet, strap on an electric guitar for a lark, stack the overlapping refrains of Sheff and Minus Story's Jordan Geiger into a    [ 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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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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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 bundle includes Okkervil River's new album The Stand Ins on CD and the band's "Wheat Paintbrush" limited edition t-shirt in a size SMALL (designed exclusively for Insound by Jason Munn and part of the Insound 20). Order together and save $2.00. Regular Price: $34.99 Bundle Price: $32.99 This Okkervil River shirt with a "Wheat Paintbrush" design is a size small and printed on a sand, 100% cotton Am   [ read more ]

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This bundle includes Okkervil River's new album The Stand Ins on CD and the band's "Wheat Paintbrush" limited edition t-shirt in a size MEDIUM (designed exclusively for Insound by Jason Munn and part of the Insound 20). Order together and save $2.00. Regular Price: $34.99 Bundle Price: $32.99 This Okkervil River shirt with a "Wheat Paintbrush" design is a size medium and printed on a sand, 100% cotton    [ read more ]

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This bundle includes Okkervil River's new album The Stand Ins on CD and the band's "Wheat Paintbrush" limited edition t-shirt in a size LARGE (designed exclusively for Insound by Jason Munn and part of the Insound 20). Order together and save $2.00. Regular Price: $34.99 Bundle Price: $32.99 This Okkervil River shirt with a "Wheat Paintbrush" design is a size large and printed on a sand, 100% cotton Am   [ read more ]

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