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Okkervil River - The Stand Ins

Dec 7, 2008, 12:10pm

Okkervil River's newest, The Stand Ins , surfaces after a short one year turnaround behind the fantastic album from 2007, The Stage Names . Much about these two albums links them very closely to one another, aside from the small time gap. Most obviously, the two respective covers fit together as one image; The Stand Ins is above; put it together with The Stage Names' cover . Despite the obvious relation between the two of the outreached hand, it's clear that this album is the darker, more depressed of the two as the cover of [...]

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