This week, Pitchfork premiered a preview (that’s a mouthful) of Okkervil River’s new album and The Stage Names sequel, The Stand Ins, which has subsequently been sweeping across the interwebs in anticipation of it’s September 9 release on Jagjaguwar. “Lost Coastlines” is easily one of the best songs from the new album, which, as big of Okkervil fans as we are around round, follows it’s predecessor fairly closely to the hip and doesn’t compare quite as well. Still there are some fantastic songs, like the download below.
The best part of “Lost Coastlines” (aside from perhaps the further entrenchment of banjo-pop on the opening), is the vocal dips down into lower register as the song turns toward Scott Walker or Stephen Merritt. It’s a dark tune, even by Okkervil standards, partly because of it’s upbeat pop gleam and partly because of those low croons that soak up a disturbingly smooth depression.
Mp3 from The Stand Ins:
Lost Coastlines
Websites:
www.okkervilriver.com
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