Title: I Am Very Far Artist: Okkervil River Label: Jagjaguwar Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 656605218526 Genre: Indie Rock/Pop Release Date: 2011-05-10 Number of Discs: 1
"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 Rivers 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 Rivers previous albums, I AM VERY FAR is a monolithic, darkly ambiguous work, one that doesn't readily offer up it's secrets.
Tracks: 1.1 The Valley 1.2 Piratess 1.3 Rider 1.4 Lay of the Last Survivor 1.5 White Shadow Waltz 1.6 We Need a Myth 1.7 Hanging from a Hit 1.8 Show Yourself 1.9 Your Past Life As a Blast 1.10 Wake and Be Fine 1.11 The Rise
