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Uh-oh, we’ve seen this story before - Okkervil River members have a creative surplus, start a side project to start stretching out some of their own tunes, and turns out that side project is damn good! Watch your back, Sheff - looks like keyboardist Scott Brackett is pulling a quick Meiburg on you, and he’s mutinying with fellow Okkervil-ians Brian Cassidy and Travis Nelson. What’s more, they wrangled Jeff Johnston from Li’l Cap’n Travis and every other band in town into the fold as well. Packing that much talent, it’s no surprise that even though the quartet will be only be playing its first show this Friday, November 27, at the Mohawk (inside after J. Tillman), their songs are pretty impressive. What is surprising, though, is that it’s not very Okkervil-ish at all! (of course, we’re sure Meiburg will tell you that that Okkervil side-project label is a bitch to peel off). Bracket & Co. - and we assume that they’ll eventually come up with a better name, because no one wants to be confused with a “Home Accents” company - have several demos up on their Myspace page that you can check out, or you can download one our favorites - “Dark Fire” - below.
Mp3:
Dark Fire
Website:
Myspace
