Okkervil River

Genre: Rock Hometown: Austin TX
www.jound.com/okkervil

Saturday, March 18   12:15 a.m.
Emo's Annex   (600 Red River St)

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  Okkervil River - No Key, No Plan
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Okkervil River's Black Sheep Boy is one of 2005's best-reviewed albums. Writing in the New York Times, Kelefa Sanneh noted that "Will Sheff, leader of the Austin indie-rock band Okkervil River, writes like a novelist. His songs are full of elegant phrases and unexpected images that tell - or don't quite tell - stories of characters trying to figure out if they need each other...The marvelous new Okkervil River album Black Sheep Boy should advance his cult further." The Chicago Tribune's Allison Steward added that "Wordy and dense, prone to murder ballads, full of soft strings and Wurlitzers, [Black Sheep Boy] manages to be both violent and bookish; it's a striking, woebegone work that offers up its charms slowly...The album winds down with the nine minutes-long "So Come Back, I Am Waiting," one of many Okkervil River songs that plays out like the strangest Cocteau movie you've probably never seen," and Stephen Deusner wrote in Pitchfork that "Sheff never overplays his hand and always maintains control, which...makes him at once heartbreaking and somewhat humorous - more self-aware than Conor Oberst, more serious than Colin Meloy, more legible than Jeff Mangum."