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Okkervil River

I Am Very Far

  • Double LP & MP3
  • Jagjaguwarjag185
  • 2011
  • US
  • I AM Very Far
Okkervil River - I Am Very Far
Double LP & MP3 - Okkervil River - I AM Very Far

I AM Very Far

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'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 River's 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 AmVery 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 River's previous albums, I Am Very Far is a monolithic, darkly ambiguous work, one that doesn't readily offer up its secrets. Work on I Am Very Far started in early 2009, after a year spent on the music of others. Sheff contributed vocals to The New Pornographer's album Together, wrote a song for Norah Jones' The Fall, and helmed the Roky Erickson record True Love Cast Out All Evil, for which his album notes received a GRAMMY nomination. Immediately upon wrapping up work and leaving Erickson's company, Sheff drove to his home state of New Hampshire for lengthy isolated writing sessions. 'I wanted to go back home and re-start writing again, like I'd never written a song previously,' he says, 'and I wanted the music and lyrics to be both completely wedded together and a little bit beyond my control.'What can listeners expect? Richer and weirder than The Stage Names and deeper and moodier than even Black Sheep Boy, I Am Very Far is dense, fragmented, opaque. A reverie of uncertainty, it feels at once disorienting and oddly familiar, threatening and friendly. Okkervil River have thrown away all maps and compasses but they continue to chart their way, unblinking, toward destinations unknown.[cargo]

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1.1. THE VALLEY
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1.2. PIRATESS
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1.3. RIDER
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1.4. LAY OF THE LAST SURVIVOR
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1.5. WHITE SHADOW WALTZ
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1.6. WE NEED A MYTH
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1.7. HANGING FROM A HIT
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1.8. SHOW YOURSELF
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1.9. YOUR PAST LIFE AS A BLAST
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1.10. WAKE AND BE FINE
Vocals, Bass
Patrick Pestorius
Vocals
Brian Cassidy
Violin
Alexis Buffum
Viola
Justin Kurys
Tuba
Will Landin
Trumpet
Ephraim Owens
Trombone
Raul Vallejo
Timpani [Tympani]
Stephen Belans
Saxophone
Paul Klemperer
Recorded By [Additional]
Joey Benjamin
Oboe
Sharon Lacey
Mixed By
John Congleton
Mastered By
Greg Calbi
Layout
Daniel Murphy
Flute
Audrey Easley
Engineer, Co-producer
Brian Beattie
Electric Guitar
Lauren Gurgiolo
Drums, Percussion
Cully Symington
Clarinet
Jeanene Ioppolo Johnson
Cello
William Braun
Bassoon
Sara Scurry
Arranged By [Strings]
Brian Cassidy
Arranged By [Horns]
Justin Sherburn
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