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OKKERVIL RIVER - BLACK SHEEP BOY: DEFINITIVE EDITION (2LP)

Okkervil River Black Sheep Boy: Definitive Edition On 2 x Vinyl LP

This is the definitive double-album set which brings together Okkervil River’s groundbreaking Black Sheep Boy project in its entirety including the original album, the 7-song Black Sheep Boy Appendix EP, and the song “The Next Four Months” (originally released on the “For Real” CD single).

Black Sheep Boy is a love story and adult fable carved in lacerating rock and roll, desolate late-night country weepers, and a few shining moments of sheer, shameless pop. Along the way, the compositions of Will Sheff evoke the mature songcraft of Leonard Cohen’s New Skin for the Old Ceremony, the sophistication of Scott Walker’s Scott 4, the shambling slow motion bravado of Neil Young’s On the Beach, and the raw nerves and trick effects of Big Star’s Third/Sister Lovers.

The Appendix is not just a companion piece to Black Sheep Boy; 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 full-length) and then punctuates and bookends them in brand-new compositions.

Okkervil River Black Sheep Boy: Definitive Edition Track Listing

1.  Black Sheep Boy
2.  For Real
3.  In A Radio Song
4.  Black
5.  Get Big
6.  A King And A Queen
7.  A Stone
8.  The Latest Toughs
9.  Song Of Our So-Called Friend
10. So Come Back, I Am Waiting
11. A Glow
12. Missing Children
13. No Key, No Plan
14. A Garden
15. Black Sheep Boy #4
16. The Next Four Months
17. Another Radio Song
18. A Forest
19. Last Love Song for Now