Gave the new Okkervil River a listen last night while Sara and I cooked dinner for her family. On the first pass it's fantastic. I need more time to sit with it and drink it in before I can really talk about it in the context of their past albums, but I could see this easily becoming my favorite of their albums.

The nicest bit was listening to the last track, John Allyn Smith Sails, and all of a sudden hearing Sara singing along even though she'd never head the song before. Turns out the last half of the song homages Sloop John B by the Beach Boys. I thought it sounded familiar but wouldn't have been able to put my finger on why as I never really listened to much Beach Boys.

Anyway, good stuff.

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I just got it and the solo demos of each song. First listen is very promising.  


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