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▓█▓▓█ Artist.....[ Okkervil River ▀████▄█▓
██▓▀ Album......[ Black Sheep Boy Appendix ▀▓██
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█▒█▓█▄▀ Catalog #..[ JAG089 ▀▄█▓█▒█
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▓█▄ ▀▄ ██▓ Genre......[ Indie ▓██ ▄▀ ▄█▓
▓▓█▓▀ ██ Language...[ English ██ ▀▓█▓▓
▀ ▄████ Rip Date...[ 2005-11-04 ████▄ ▀
▄ ▀ ▓█▓ Store Date.[ 2005-11-22 ▓█▓ ▀ ▄
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▀█▓▀ Quality....[ 200 kbps AVG VBR 44.1/Joint Stereo ▀▓█▀
▄ █▓█▄▓█▓ Url........[ http://jound.com/okkervil/ ▓█▓▄█▓█ ▄
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█▓ 01 Missing Children 3:04 ▓█
█▓ 02 No Key, No Plan 3:00 ▓█
█▓ 03 A Garden 0:51 ▓█
█▓ 04 Black Sheep Boy #4 5:23 ▓█
█▓ 05 Another Radio Song 4:59 ▓█
█▓ 06 A Forest 1:24 ▓█
█▓ 07 Last Love Song For Now 6:00 ▓█
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█░█ Okkervil River's Black Sheep Boy Appendix is not █░█
█░█ just a companion piece to their █░█
█░█ critically-acclaimed 2005 release; it's also a █░█
█░█ condensed, alternate vision of that record's █░█
█░█ imagery and themes, with the ultimate intent to █░█
█░█ exhaust and destroy both. This ambitious █░█
█░█ mini-album rounds up and reworks the band's █░█
█░█ favorite unfinished songs (tracked for the Black █░█
█░█ Sheep Boy full-length) and then punctuates and █░█
█░█ bookends them in brand-new compositions; in the █░█
█░█ process, it shows songwriter Will Sheff and █░█
█░█ company both revisiting themes from their past █░█
█░█ and shooting off in some startling new █░█
█░█ directions. "Missing Children" entombs an █░█
█░█ unnerving fairy tale monologue in an arrangement █░█
█░█ that recalls The Marble Index or Tilt; its melody █░█
█░█ is reprised twenty minutes later in a frenetic █░█
█░█ and jangly rocker that might have been hatched █░█
█░█ from the side of Love's "A House is Not a Motel." █░█
█░█ In between is everything else; suffocatingly lush █░█
█░█ string instrumentals, skittering found sounds, █░█
█░█ lean rockers, deafening epics, the rhythm section █░█
█░█ interrogating the lead singer, and "Black Sheep █░█
█░█ Boy #4," which messily dispatches the Black Sheep █░█
█░█ Boy character in a lurid crime scene high on a █░█
█░█ plateau of hallucinatory, cinematic folk. █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ Okkervil River's Black Sheep Boy is one of 2005's █░█
█░█ best-reviewed albums. Writing in the New York █░█
█░█ Times, Kelefa Sanneh noted that "Will Sheff, █░█
█░█ leader of the Austin indie-rock band Okkervil █░█
█░█ River, writes like a novelist. His songs are full █░█
█░█ of elegant phrases and unexpected images that █░█
█░█ tell - or don't quite tell - stories of █░█
█░█ characters trying to figure out if they need each █░█
█░█ otherà.The marvelous new Okkervil River album █░█
█░█ Black Sheep Boy should advance his cult further." █░█
█░█ The Chicago Tribune's Allison Steward added that █░█
█░█ "Wordy and dense, prone to murder ballads, full █░█
█░█ of soft strings and Wurlitzers, [Black Sheep Boy] █░█
█░█ manages to be both violent and bookish; it's a █░█
█░█ striking, woebegone work that offers up its █░█
█░█ charms slowlyà.The album winds down with the nine █░█
█░█ minutes-long "So Come Back, I Am Waiting," one of █░█
█░█ many Okkervil River songs that plays out like the █░█
█░█ strangest Cocteau movie you've probably never █░█
█░█ seen," and Stephen Deusner wrote in Pitchfork █░█
█░█ that "Sheff never overplays his hand and always █░█
█░█ maintains control, whichàmakes him at once █░█
█░█ heartbreaking and somewhat humorous-- more █░█
█░█ self-aware than Conor Oberst, more serious than █░█
█░█ Colin Meloy, more legible than Jeff Mangum." █░█
█░█ █░█
█░█ This Appendix is Okkervil River's most █░█
█░█ adventurous and eccentric work so far. Working █░█
█░█ deliriously long hours with Black Sheep Boy █░█
█░█ collaborator Brian Beattie, Okkervil River █░█
█░█ recorded Black Sheep Boy Appendix entirely on █░█
█░█ spare days and weeks off from their recent tours █░█
█░█ with the Decemberists, Rilo Kiley, and Earlimart, █░█
█░█ holding to a self-imposed schedule that left no █░█
█░█ room for second guessing any decisions. Instead █░█
█░█ of choosing to keep things simple, though, the █░█
█░█ band took the opposite approach, trying out any █░█
█░█ and all production ideas without any time to █░█
█░█ second-guess them. The resulting work shows the █░█
█░█ full freedom and playfulness of a band working █░█
█░█ too fast to wonder and what they're doing and █░█
█░█ having too much fun to care. Black Sheep Boy █░█
█░█ Appendix is a wild, sloppy 35-minute rip through █░█
█░█ a fantastical Technicolor landscape that's █░█
█░█ crumbling into pieces as it unreels, a last █░█
█░█ footnote on a strange and dangerous universe █░█
█░█ before the band departs for points as yet distant █░█
█░█ and unknown. █░█
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