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-up couches of hotel...   [ 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 and wrenching...   [ 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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