Following the successful Black Sheep Boy, published in 2005, Texans Okkervil River return to the folk-rock scene independent The Stage Names. This is the sixth studio album from this group, which is current world tour to promote it. It is precisely this which will tour to Spain, specifically the Primavera Sound Festival in May 2008.
The Stage Names offers a home overwhelming, with three topics flag as are Our life is not a movie or maybe , Unless it's kicks and A hand to take hold of the scene, where the lyrical inspiration and Will Sheff Sharps perfectly fits the environment as well Southerner who knows how to create the band. In that same environment of bass, banjo and trumpet, but with less speed, we work in Ecuador stand out above all A girl in port , ode to love and hate, incomplete relations that accumulate in the vital background and leave a bitter taste to remember. The dynamics of "storyteller" is maintained until the last song, John Allyn Smith Sails , which is Sheff skillfully manages to insert the chorus of the well-known in the industry Sloop John B as tribute veiled (or not so) to the Beach Boys and the poet John Berryman , which inspired both songs.
The Stage Names is a rock album with lots of additional labels possible (Folk, country, alternative ...) but rock containing the final analysis and presentation (in the Primavera Sound 2008 ) is a direct look forward with great interest.
(Review published in IndyRock on January 4, 2008, read review)
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