Okkervil River – The Stand Ins due out this Autumn on Jagjaguwar

Posted on 30th May 08 by Contributor | 0

Artist: Okkervil River
Author: Jason Golden

Okkervil River

Okkervil Rivers The Stand Ins due out this Autumn on Jagjaguwar

On September 12" Jagjaguwar Records will release Okkervil Rivers new full"length album titled The Stand Ins in the USA" with European release dates to follow shortly thereafter. The album is the sequel to 2007s critically acclaimed The Stage Names" which Pitchfork praised as ""one of the years best"" and The New York Times proclaimed" "This bands musical arsenal keeps getting fuller."

The Stand Ins was recorded in Austin and produced by longtime collaborator Brian Beattie and Okkervil River. The album features 11 songs and includes the track "Lost Coastlines"" on which Sheff and recently departed Jonathan Meiburg of Shearwater share a duet on the joys and hardships of trying to keep the band together. Of the process Will Sheff explains" "We had so many songs we were excited about that we briefly threw around the idea of just putting out a double record. Instead" we decided to take a group of songs that fit with each other and turn that into The Stage Names" setting the rest aside for a future release" a Stage Names sequel." The Stand Ins is that sequel" part two of a staggered double album. Like artist William Schaffs embroidered artwork" which depicts whats happening underneath The Stage Names front"cover quicksand hand" The Stand Ins picks up exactly where Part One left off but also delves deeper into the story and theme of The Stage Names. It is a full"length" fleshed"out" deeply ambitious labor of love.