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Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy

  • 31-03-2005 2:42pm
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    TheMonster
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    Cracking Album - been listening to it for a few days now - 2 full songs to download free on their website. - Take a listen you won't be dissapointed.

    http://www.jagjaguwar.com/catalog/jag80.htm
    This is why we do this. This is why we scour webzines and glossy magazines and chat-up our friends. This is why music is more than a passing interest to us. It is why you are reading SPONIC right now and why you are probably going to the record store today or a show tonight. We do it for records like this.

    Black Sheep Boy is full of big ideas and each is exquisitely executed. The cover of Tim Hardin’s “Black Sheep Boy” that opens the album sets the loose theme of the record. We all feel lonely, forgotten, broken at one time or another, but this record isn’t about damaged people, but damaged moments, and the resilience of life.

    The album unfolds with cinematic precision. After the epilogue of an opener, “For Real” previews the rest of the album as the quiet beautiful moments give way to heavier hook-filled moments. “For Real” gives way to “In a Radio Song,” which is mostly just Will Sheff and an acoustic guitar, followed by “Black.” This is a song you will want to play over and over again. Even if the lyrics were nonsense, you would love this song. “Black” is filled with enough great moments to fill an album: The intelligent lyrics about the aftermath of a terrible event, Sheff’s raw throated screams, and the tightness of the band behind him. It is the highlight of a record that is note perfect.

    http://www.sponiczine.com/review_detail.asp?wfArtist=Okkervil%20River


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