"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 River's 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 River's previous albums, I Am Very Far is a monolithic, darkly ambiguous work, one that doesn't readily offer up it's secrets.
- SIDE 1 -
1 The Valley
2 Piratess
3 Rider
4 Lay of the Last Survivor
5 White Shadow Waltz
6 We Need a Myth
7 Hanging from a Hit
8 Show Yourself
- SIDE 2 -
1 Your Past Life As a Blast
2 Wake and Be Fine
3 The Rise