I Am Very Far [LP]
"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.
Tracklist:
- The Valley
- Piratess
- Rider
- Lay of the Last Survivor
- White Shadow Waltz
- We Need a Myth
- Hanging from a Hit
- Show Yourself
- Your Past Life As a Blast 1
- Wake and Be Fine 1
- The Rise
UPC: 656605218519
Label: Jagjaguwar
Release Date: 5.10.11
Format: Vinyl

