Browse by Artist: OKKERVIL RIVER

Artist:	OKKERVIL RIVER
Title:	Sleep & Wake-Up Songs
Label:	JAGJAGUWAR
Format:	CD
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	JAG 074CD

"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 Phil Spector-esque ecstasy of sexual confusion, and finally strip things down to naked and initiate a straightforward love song."

Artist:	OKKERVIL RIVER
Title:	Black Sheep Boy
Label:	JAGJAGUWAR
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	JAG 080CD

"Black Sheep Boy is Okkervil River's most ambitious and cinematic record yet, a love story and adult fable that evokes the mature songcraft of Leonard Cohen's New Skin for the Old Ceremony, the sophistication of Scott Walker's Scott 4, the shambling slow-motion bravado of Neil Young's On the Beach, and the raw nerves and trick effects of Big Star's Third/Sister Lovers. It also occasionally echoes Lou Reed's Transformer in that it is actually the band's most playful and confident record by far, delighting in linguistic games, scrapping all caution and reserve, reveling equally in sheer pop, lacerating rock and roll, and straight-up country weepers. The most fully-realized and wildly adventurous Okkervil River record yet also introduces into the modern folk bellwether's traditional palette of mandolin, pump organ, steel guitar, Wurlitzer, strings and horns such previously foreign elements as children's keyboards, digitally-manipulated field recordings, and dirty splatters of distorted guitar."

Artist:	OKKERVIL RIVER
Title:	The President's Dead
Label:	JAGJAGUWAR
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	JAG 101EP

"The President's Dead is the first release by Okkervil River since 2005's masterful Black Sheep Boy project. ocked in the grooves of this limited-edition vinyl-only release is what might be Okkervil River's most accessible and most contentious song, 'The President's Dead.' A two-minute and forty-two second serving of alternative historical fiction camouflaged as a folk anthem tarted up as a pop single that never was, 'The President's Dead' depicts with tenderness and empathy the shock felt by a sensitive young Republican upon hearing news of an assassination over the radio, its lyrics shifting sneakily from images of public horror to those of private tenderness as its music performs a similarly schizoid leap."

Artist:	OKKERVIL RIVER
Title:	Black Sheep Boy
Label:	JAGJAGUWAR
Format:	2CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	JAG 120CD

"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 new millennium. Black Sheep Boy is Okkervil River's most ambitious and cinematic record to date, a love story and adult fable carved in lacerating rock and roll, desolate late-night country weepers, and a few shining moments of sheer, shameless pop."

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