Okkervil River - I Am Very Far

"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 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 River's previous albums, I Am Very Far is a monolithic, darkly ambiguous work, one that doesn't readily offer up it's secrets. - SIDE 1 -1 The Valley2 Piratess3 Rider4 Lay of the Last Survivor5 White Shadow Waltz6 We Need a Myth7 Hanging from a Hit8 Show Yourself - SIDE 2 -1 Your Past Life As a Blast2 Wake and Be Fine3 The Rise