| Okkervil River / Black Sheep Boy Appendix |
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| Album: | Black Sheep Boy Appendix | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Okkervil River | Added: | Jan 2006 | |
| Label: | Jagjaguwar | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2006-01-15 | Pull Date: | 2006-03-19 |
| Week Ending: | Mar 19 | Mar 12 | Feb 26 | Feb 19 | Feb 12 | Feb 5 | Jan 29 | Jan 22 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 19, 2015: | A-philiac Another Radio Song, Black Sheep Boy #4, No Key, No Plan | 4. | Sep 23, 2010: | Daydream Disaster No Key, No Plan | |
| 2. | Jun 06, 2013: | Daydream Disaster No Key, No Plan | 5. | Aug 07, 2009: | Trailways Black Sheep Boy #4 | |
| 3. | Nov 22, 2011: | There and Back Again A Forest | 6. | Jun 01, 2009: | Sound Check Another Radio Song |
| Album Review |
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| Wicked Child Reviewed 2006-01-11 | ||
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Dramatic indie pop. Lo-fi influenced, but with a full sound. Apparently this album is a reimagining of their previous album's themes & mythos, after listening to this, I wish I was more familiar with that record. This is an amazing little EP that is not lo-fi, but evokes and trumps almost every lo-fi band you can imagine -- the Decemberists turned up to 11, Neutral Milk Hotel recorded in hi-fi, Bright Eyes if he wasn't so annoying. Somehow the lead singer reminds me of early U2/Bono as well -- reaching, haunting, purposeful, full of sublimated anger. If you pay attention to yrics, these songs all tell stories. Every vocal track a gem. FCC Clean. Picks: 2, 5. --Wicked Child 1) Amazing other-worldly intro, vocals with long sustained organ and violin. Toy piano outro. Slow. (fairy tale monologue) (3:04) ***2) Immediate rolling guitars, no introduction. Swaggering vocals, that become desperate at the end. (3:00) 3) Mournful violin atmospherics. no vox. (0:51) 4) Slow. Bright-eyes vocals, female vox accompaniment. Folky, lo-fi. Full folk instrumentation, harmonica, piano, violin. Fake-out ending at 4:52.(5:23) ***5) Starts subdued and lo-fi, gets surprisingly angry and loud by the end. Bright Eyes-esuqe vocals, they're strained and pained, but he's still singing in his range. Nearly growling with anger at the end. (4:59) 6) Starts off with skittering watery chime rhythm, expecting full-blown glitch, instead it's just static with bass and indecipherable vocals. (1:24) 7) Strutting guitar, kindof like a Decemberists song done hard. Handclaps, horns, surprisingly standard pop structure/feel. 1min of fading guitars at end. (6:00) | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Missing Children | 4. | Black Sheep Boy #4 | |||
| 2. | No Key, No Plan | 5. | Another Radio Song | |||
| 3. | A Garden | 6. | A Forest | |||
| 7. | Last Love Song For Now | |||||