Okkervil River - The Stage Names
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Artist: Okkervil RiverEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-08-07
Music Label: Jagjaguwar
Soundtracks:
- Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe
- Unless It Kicks
- Hand To Take Hold Of The Scene, A
- Savannah Smiles
- Plus Ones
- Girl In Port, A
- You Can't Hold The Hand Of A Rock And Roll Man
- Title Track
- John Allyn Smith Sails
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Music Review: at same height!!
Rating: 5 Stars
No es de extra?arse que cada material que escuchemos de esta banda de Austin Texas nos proyecte una atmosfera ?nica y cada vez mas refinada. "The Stage Names", nos mantiene en el mismo nivel que su antecesor "Black Sheep Boy", sin llegar a repetirse, pero si conservando una l?nea ascendente que puede llevar a esta gran banda a solidificarse en la escena...100% recomendable!!
Description of The Stage Names
This record dynamites the moss-covered castle walls of 2005's "Black Sheep Boy" to let in the glaring sun. Riddled with characters real and fake, with the relics of high culture and the crumpled up trash of low culture, "The Stage Names" is a cinemascopic take on the meaning of entertainment in the modern world. Reverberant with echoes of Motown snap and girl group pop, redolent with ripe whiffs of dirty rock 'n' roll, shining with the shimmy of Bo Diddley, with the shimmer of the Velvets, with the swagger of the Faces, and with a glittery sprinkling of cheap perfume to disguise the stink, "The Stage Names" is a relentlessly paced and ruthlessly thrilling journey.On their debut album, Don't Fall in Love with Everyone You See, Okkervil River invoked Otis Redding's "I've Got Dreams to Remember" in a late-album sweep of drama. Here they take the closer, "John Allyn Smith Sails," and spin languidly into verses from "Sloop John B," with tattered, ragged horns invoking Neutral Milk Hotel. Singer Will Sheff re-asserts his primacy as the best mid-range, lyric-wobbling howler as he pleads, "I feel so broke up, I wanna go home." But you don't have to wait until the ninth track to get the point: Okkervil River has grown yet again, weaving mandolin twang with pump organ wheeze as they name-check the Byrds, "99 Luftbaloons," and Paul Simon's "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover," all in the first two minutes of "Plus Ones," and then embracing sad-sack heartbreak amidst pedal steel on "A Girl in Port," a mere four tracks after the distortion-laden guitar riffage of "Unless It's Kicks." Hyper-literate, musically accomplished, and keenly aware of dramatic sweep, Okkervil River continues fulfilling the promise inherent not only in each of their prior albums but also in the enthused throes of passion marking Okkervil's colleagues, Arcade Fire and Decemberists and Bright Eyes. A brilliant work, The Stage Names. --Andrew Bartlett
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