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Okkervil River - The Stand Ins

Sep 16, 2008, 12:28pm Yoogli Music
Okkervil River - The Stand Ins Will Sheff has one of the most distinctive voices in indie music. It blends tones of desperation and storytelling that fit somewhere around a camp fire. While on their first breakout release, Black Sheep Boy , Okkervil River set out to tell elaborate fictional tale of a downtrodden boy, The Stand Ins , the band's fifth LP, is a bit vaguer thematically but is held up by the tightness of the songwriting and performance. The endless resource that is Wikipedia just informed me that if you line up the cover art for The Stage Names (4th [...]
Artist:Okkervil River
Title:Lost Coastlines
Link Text:The Lost Coastlines
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