Description:
This is the definitive double-disc set which brings together Okkervil Rivers ground-breaking Black Sheep Boy project in its entirety -- including the original album, the 7-song Black Sheep Boy Appendix EP, the song `The Next Four Months` (originally released on the `For Real` CD single), the `For Real` video as well as a new video of a magical alternate slower take of `No Key, No Plan`. Black Sheep Boy is Okkervil Rivers most ambitious and cinematic record to date, 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 Cohens New Skin for the Old Ceremony, the sophistication of Scott Walkers Scott 4, the shambling slow-motion bravado of Neil Youngs On the Beach, and the raw nerves and trick effects of Big Stars Third/Sister Lovers. (Jagjaguwar)
