 | The Stand Ins [Read More ...]
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". |
 | The Stage Names [Read More ...]
Description: This record dynamites the moss-covered castle walls of 2005's "Black Sheep Boy" to let in the glaring sun. Riddled with characters real and fake, with the relics of high culture and the crumpled up trash of low culture, "The Stage Names" is a cinemascopic take on the meaning o... |
 | Black Sheep Boy (Definitive Edition) [Read More ...]
Description: 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" C... |
 | Don't Fall in Love With Everyone You See [Read More ...]
Description: With grackles in their hair and tragedies in their boots, Okkervil River have taken a shot at tradition and injected it with new passion and virility. Uniting the strains of moody chamber pop contemporaries like Tindersticks, Arab Strap and Bright Eyes with the ragged emotional v... |
 | Black Sheep Boy [Read More ...]
Description: On Okkervil River’s first Jagjaguwar release, Don’t Fall in Love with Everyone You See, the band included a song entitled "Listening to Otis Redding at Home During Christmas," a kind of re-imagining of Redding’s "I’ve Got Dreams to Remember." On the band’s newest releas... |
 | Down the River of Golden Dreams [Read More ...]
Review: perfection:I've been listening to this album for a couple of years now and just recently it has been sitting on repeat over and over probably because of the mood I have been in.
This is one of the most honest and beautiful albums ever. Ever.
Each and every song has it's own beaut... |
 | Black Sheep Boy Appendix [Read More ...]
Review: Haunting, Beautiful, and Broken:Last year, I was given a copy of "Black Sheep Boy" by a friend. I loved it so much, that I purchased "The Stage Names". While the latter is a great album, it didn't have the haunted, broken sound of "Black Sheep Boy" that made me love it. So I thou... |
 | Sleep and Wake-Up Songs [Read More ...]
Description: 'Sleep and Wake-Up Songs' is just a station on your way; it knows it’s not your lover. It’s a little shed; a lean-to constructed on the banks of some shaded stream between mountains. There is peace and quiet here. The late afternoon sun slants through logs set lazily on top o... |
 | THE STAGE NAMES [Read More ...]
Description: This record dynamites the moss-covered castle walls of 2005's "Black Sheep Boy" to let in the glaring sun. Riddled with characters real and fake, with the relics of high culture and the crumpled up trash of low culture, "The Stage Names" is a cinemascopic take on the meaning o... |
 | The Stand Ins [Read More ...]
Review: More musings on the price of fame:The Stand Ins is the sequel to last year's stellar The Stage Names from Okkervil River and the two could have been released together as a double album. But really, could we handle that much awesome rock in one helping? Will Sheff thought not so... |
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| BLACK SHEEP BOY [Read More ...]
Description: On Okkervil River’s first Jagjaguwar release, Don’t Fall in Love with Everyone You See, the band included a song entitled "Listening to Otis Redding at Home During Christmas," a kind of re-imagining of Redding’s "I’ve Got Dreams to Remember." On the band’s newest releas... |
 | For Real [Read More ...]
Review: for the completist:The second track on this 3 track single is what did it for me. 'The Next Four Months' is a song that embarrased me on the 9 train by evoking tears that rolled down my cheeks as it streamed through my headphones. It is a classic example of the enveloping narra... |
 | The Stage Names [Read More ...]
Description: This record dynamites the moss-covered castle walls of 2005's "Black Sheep Boy" to let in the glaring sun. Riddled with characters real and fake, with the relics of high culture and the crumpled up trash of low culture, "The Stage Names" is a cinemascopic take on the meaning o... |
 | DOWN THE RIVER OF GOLDEN DREAM [Read More ...]
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 | DON'T FALL IN LOVE WITH EVERY [Read More ...]
Review: perfection:I've been listening to this album for a couple of years now and just recently it has been sitting on repeat over and over probably because of the mood I have been in.
This is one of the most honest and beautiful albums ever. Ever.
Each and every song has it's own beaut... |
![]() | THE PRESIDENT'S DEAD B/W THE R [Read More ...]
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 | Black Sheep Boy Appendix [Read More ...]
Review: Haunting, Beautiful, and Broken:Last year, I was given a copy of "Black Sheep Boy" by a friend. I loved it so much, that I purchased "The Stage Names". While the latter is a great album, it didn't have the haunted, broken sound of "Black Sheep Boy" that made me love it. So I thou... |
![]() | The Stage Names [Read More ...]
Description: This record dynamites the moss-covered castle walls of 2005's "Black Sheep Boy" to let in the glaring sun. Riddled with characters real and fake, with the relics of high culture and the crumpled up trash of low culture, "The Stage Names" is a cinemascopic take on the meaning o... |
 | Black Sheep Boy [Read More ...]
Description: On Okkervil River’s first Jagjaguwar release, Don’t Fall in Love with Everyone You See, the band included a song entitled "Listening to Otis Redding at Home During Christmas," a kind of re-imagining of Redding’s "I’ve Got Dreams to Remember." On the band’s newest releas... |
 | Julie Doiron/Okkervil River [Read More ...]
julie:I would give this five stars if the okkervil river songs were not on the cd. I always have to get up to turn it off after julie's songs are over. these are some of her best songs without question. actually I do like okkervil river o.k. - I have one of their other albums. |
