Given the dream-like quality of the music and the wide scope of the title for visual artists to work with, Okkervil River have unsurprisingly released a second video for the song “Your Past Life As A Blast” taken from I Am Very Far. How do you capture a memory? This is the main question director [...]
Okkervil River‘s Will Sheff has taken the literal approach while assembling a video for the track “Your Past Life As A Blast” by using home movies of the Sheff family shot by his father. Sheff said about the clip — “Like many kids of the late 70s and early 80s, my dad was often hovering around with a Super 8 camera, filming my mom and me and – as time passed – my younger brother and sister. I remember him projecting these movies on a bare wall and, eventually, the movies becoming as much a part of my memory as the original events he had filmed. I thought it would be cool to use actual footage of those memories in the video itself, to make a really personal kind of rock video”. Soon to be traversing the globe taking in shows in Australia and Spain throughout October and November, the band will be rounding out a busy year touring I Am Very Far with a final batch of shows in UK and Ireland, culminating in their largest London show to date at Koko on the 22nd.
Very unsure about this album, the sixth from past Webcuts pet faves, Okkervil River. I Am Very Far from their best.
Having spent a large portion of 2010 writing and recording with Roky Erickson and touring as his support band, Okkervil River haven’t exactly been laying on their laurels. A 12″ single “Mermaid” slipped out quietly late last year, but we’re sailing ever closer to the release of their 6th album entitled I Am Very Far [...]
Having spent a large portion of 2010 writing and recording with Roky Erickson and touring as his support band, Will Sheff and Okkervil River haven’t exactly been laying on their laurels post-The Stage Names/The Stand-Ins. A 12″ single “Mermaid” quietly slipped out late last year, but it’s with much excitement (at least round these parts) to announce details of their 6th album entitled I Am Very Far to be released on May 9 through Jagjaguwar. London audiences are to be treated to an early taste of the album when Will Sheff performs a rare solo show at St. Pancras Church on March 28.
Okkervil River The Zoo, Brisbane 3rd May 2009 “No one wants to hear about your 97th tear” offers Will Sheff, he of red beard, bookish glasses and shaggy hair, during tonight’s opening rhyme heavy “Plus Ones”. Oh but we do. We want to hear ninety odd minutes of heartbreak and loss, songs about self harm, [...]
A star-studded cast pay tribute on this anniversary compilation, but who invited Times New Viking?
We shan’t be coy: We’ve adored Okkervil River ever since Black Sheep Boy crept up on us almost four years ago. 2007′s The Stage Names was named one of our favourite albums of that year and likewise last year’s The Stand In’s also received a coverted placing in our top 25 poll. The fabulous Austin [...]
Ladies and gentlemen, the envelope please! Webcuts favourite albums of 2008 as argued and fought over by us, including star-studded appearances from Beach House, My Morning Jacket, Fleet Foxes, Nick Cave, Santogold, Okkervil River and many more…
Jagjaguwar, 2008 The Austin boys in Okkervil River are back with another album and like always it’s filled with surprising stories, dense lyrics and great tunes that stick with you. The Stand Ins sees the band explore the issue of stardom and fame from different perspectives including those of groupies, porn stars, ex-boyfriends and ageing [...]
The Too Pure Singles Club returns in 2012 with a bang (or is that a rattle) with the sound of Icelandic mantra magicians Dead Skeletons. For the uninitiated, Dead Skeletons came into existence in 2008 when band member Jon Saamunder needed music for an art installation in the Reykjavik Art Museum. Enlisting the help of friends Henrik Bjornsson and Ryan Carlson Van Kriedt the trio penned the songs which would eventually become the Dead Magick album, a 72 minute, 12 song journey through space and time, life and death. “Om Mani Peme Hung” is the sound of Neu! on a meditation retreat engaging in a spiritual hypno-chant. Now repeat after me… Om Mani Peme Hung, Om Mani Peme Hung, Om Mani Peme Hung… (subscribe to the Too Pure Singles Club here).
