Okkervil River: I Am Very Far – VINYL LP

Title: I Am Very Far
Artist: Okkervil River
Label: Jagjaguwar
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 656605218519
Genre: Indie Rock/Pop
Release Date: 2011-05-10
Number of Discs: 1

“The goal was to push my brain to places it didn’t want to go. The idea was to not have any idea to keep myself confused about what I was doing,” frontman Will Sheff says about Okkervil Rivers newest album. The resulting record, I AM VERY FAR, is a startling break from anything this band has done before. By turns terrifying and joyous, violent and serene, grotesque and romantic, it’s a celebration of forces beyond our control. On I AM VERY FAR, Sheff emerges not only as a songwriter of the highest caliber, but a producer and arranger of singular vision. Abandoning the tidy conceptual arcs of Okkervil Rivers previous albums, I AM VERY FAR is a monolithic, darkly ambiguous work, one that doesn’t readily offer up it’s secrets.

Tracks:
1.1 The Valley
1.2 Piratess
1.3 Rider
1.4 Lay of the Last Survivor
1.5 White Shadow Waltz
1.6 We Need a Myth
1.7 Hanging from a Hit
1.8 Show Yourself
2.1 Your Past Life As a Blast
2.2 Wake and Be Fine
2.3 The Rise