Okkervil River – I Am Very Far 2xLP

By turns terrifying & joyous, violent & serene, grotesque & romantic, it’s a celebration of forces beyond our control. Abandoning the tidy conceptual arcs of their previous albums, this is a monolithic, darkly ambiguous work, one that doesn’t readily offer up its secrets. Richer & weirder than The Stage Names & deeper & moodier than even Black Sheep Boy, this is dense, fragmented, opaque.