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	Okkervil River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Okkervil River is an indie band formed in Austin, Texas in 1998.
		Jagjaguwar released Down the River of Golden Dreams on September 2, 2003.
		Prior to the release of Down the River...
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Okkervil_River (784 words)

	Encyclopedia: Okkervil River
		I've got a feeling that when Sheff and the rest of Okkervil River assume their proper place at the top of the indie rock feeding chain that it's as likely as not that there will be some bare rumps and rough mornings.
		Okkervil River's current live set is all steadily building peaks and crescendos balancing precariously at their high points, dragged out, sustained, pushed, into a gleefully head bobbing zone that can get even the most jaded scenester smiling.
		Okkervil River is probably a long way away from the kind of rock 'n' roll debauchery made famous by others.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Okkervil-River (482 words)

	Okkervil River "Down the River of Golden Dreams" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Okkervil River's Down the River of Golden Dreams takes the band's hallmarks - lush, eclectic orchestration that evokes chamber pop and soul, lapel-gripping emotional urgency, and the lyrical, direct songwriting of frontman Will Sheff - and expands and elevates them in service of a stunningly ambitious set of new songs.
		If last year's Don't Fall in Love with Everyone You See was the middle of the darkest night of the year, Down the River of Golden Dreams is the earliest light of a morning that could either bring the first breeze of spring or a battalion of tornadoes.
		Down the River of Golden Dreams combines with Okkervil's trademark melancholy a sense of drama and play at which the last album only hinted.
	www.jagjaguwar.com /catalog/jag54.htm (365 words)

	TANGMONKEY.COM [ REVIEW: Okkervil River: Down the River of Golden Dreams ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		But the bulk of Golden Dreams isn't confessional, weepy whingeing; these are narratives of expired movie-stars, adulterers and war-criminals and the near-dead; portraits not diary-entries.
		Down the River of Golden Dreams is not an album of genius, but it has enough flecks of brilliance to justify superlatives.
		Okkervil River has not yet arrived at wherever it is the band is ultimately headed: for the moment, however, the journey is a light-kissed delight in itself.
	www.tangmonkey.com /columns/105884861365598.php (1004 words)

	Shearwater - Winged Life (Misra), Okkervil River - Down the River of Golden Dreams (Jagjaguwar)
		Okkervil River's Down the River of Golden Dreams has taken off in a different direction from some of their earlier recordings.
		Okkervil River is well on their way if they keep progressing the way they have.
		Down the River of Golden Dreams is a solid record and possesses a charm that will make you a fan.
	www.fakejazz.com /reviews/2004/shearwater.shtml (461 words)

	Tucson Weekly : Music : A River Runs Through It
		Rivers are often the arteries of civilizations; like burglars and blood, they run through something, bringing things in and taking things away.
		The effort that Okkervil River puts into their songs spills out everywhere; listen closely at any given moment, and several instruments are present (mandolin, Mellotron, banjo, piano, different organs creating different sounds) all playing something simple and sweet.
		Okkervil River's songs benefit, though, from careful articulation of thoughts through words and instruments, telling stories of relationships in landscapes like living rooms and suburban thoroughfares, on rivers of towns and traffic.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /gbase/Music/Content?oid=oid:51420 (1258 words)

	Whistler Canoeing and Kayaking
		With 9 rivers in the area, instructor's are able to gear each adventure to meet the specific needs and abilities of your group.
		One of the most delightful experiences at Whistler is paddling your own canoe or kayak down the River of Golden Dreams.
		It is the exhilaration of being in a little boat floating down a raging river.
	www.wildwoodlodge.com /summer/canoeing/canoeing.html (546 words)

	PopMatters Music Interview \| The Black Sheep Boys Have Arrived
		Okkervil River's Will Sheff might be more petty thief than serial killer, but don't think there's nothing dark lurking.
		Case in point are the dueling versions of Down the River of Golden Dreams' and Stars Too Small to Use's "The Velocity of Saul at the Time of His Conversion".
		Dreams' updated version shows a Sheff much more confident in his abilities as a singer, and the band much more capable of driving the song's finishing coda straight into the rafters as opposed to just allowing it to hover in close-but-not-quite kind of way.
	www.popmatters.com /music/interviews/okkervil-river-050427.shtml (2402 words)

	The Yale Herald - Feb 6, 2004 - okkervil river - down the river of golden dreams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When Okkervil River, an alt-country quartet from Austin with two overlooked records and a cult following, does it right, they sound sharp and truthful without feeling too nostalgically bittersweet—like the kind of breakaway film that wins the Oscar without really trying.
		And while alt-country is often guilty of being formulaic, the songs on Down the River of Golden Dreams are structurally complex, rambling, and shift easily between pounding pop and tender lullaby.
		While Okkervil River certainly knows how to write a slow, tragic song, the group is also capable of turning up the volume.
	www.yaleherald.com /article-p.php?Article=2908 (412 words)

	Torontoist: Down The River Of Golden Dreams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Austin, Texas' Okkervil River are currently on their first major North American tour, a tour which brings them to Lee's Palace on Monday night.
		Supporting Okkervil River on this leg of the tour is Minus Story, who bring their bent psychedelic folk-pop from deep in the heartland of America.
		Their number may be down to three, but Broadcast are still alive, kicking and touring their new album Tender Buttons to Lee's Palace with Warp labelmates Gravenhurst ($15).
	www.torontoist.com /archives/2005/11/down_the_river.php (964 words)

	Okkervil River "Black Sheep Boy" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Okkervil River’s 2003 album Down the River of Golden Dreams earned wide critical praise; Magnet called it the 8th best album of the year, comparing it to Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea and adding that “Okkervil River has that sort of mythical genius.
		Down the River…is a story of epic proportions—a battle with the enemies at hand that spirals into a confrontation of the demons within.” In the New York Times, Kelefa Sanneh noted that “Down the River of Golden Dreams…lays clever, heartbreaking lyrics over simple, stirring chord progressions…Mr.
		Most of the songs for Black Sheep Boy were written by Sheff after he’d moved out of his house to spend all of 2003 on the road, touring for Down the River of Golden Dreams and road-tripping around the country during off weeks.
	www.jagjaguwar.com /catalog/jag80.htm (523 words)

	Okkervil River in Concert in London - Fiddler's Elbow
		Okkervil River Down the River of Golden Dreams music review Okkervil River's new album Down the River of Golden Dreams with The War Criminal Rises And Speaks.
		And it is criminal to menace the unknowing public with the spectre of Billy Ray Cyrus when Okkervil River's music is a thousand miles from the dumb bales and the righteous barns of the square-dancing world.
		It is no coincidence that Okkervil River received the endorsement of Daniel Johnston, the bruised artist who inspired legions of aching youth including Kurt Cobain.
	www.plume-noire.com /music/live/okkervilriver.html (802 words)

	Down the River of Golden Dreams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		'Down the River of Golden Dreams' is that sunshine between rain, then.
		Part of me hopes that Okkervil River will become insanely famous and achieve the notoriety they so clearly deserve, yet the other part wants me to keep being able to see them in intimate venues with other obsessed fanatics.
		Down The River Of Golden Dreams is catchy and accessible, yet still intelligent and beautiful.
	www.armchairfans.co.uk /books/B0000B17RU (297 words)

	SPACE CITY ROCK: CD/7" Reviews (O)
		Take what's undoubtedly the high point of Down the River, the awesome, astounding "The War Criminal Rises and Speaks" -- if this were anybody else, the song would be the high point not just of an album, but of a career.
		Sure, Okkervil River draw from their influences, and the music makes me think of old soul records, Leonard Cohen, the Red House Painters, the Afghan Whigs, The Kinks, and Woody Guthrie, among other things, but the end result is all their own.
		Throughout Down the River, Sheff's incredible lyrics don't necessarily make sense to me (as with the beautiful, resigned "The Velocity of Saul at the Time of His Conversion"), but they still sound like they've got to make sense to somebody, somewhere.
	www.spacecityrock.com /issue7/reviews/rev-O.html (842 words)

	The Story of Down the River of Golden Dreams
		I don’t know where to start when telling a story of Down the River of Golden Dreams, because it seemed like such a massive endeavor at the time that very little narrative thread is discernable to me, even after some time has passed.
		As in the past, we hewed closely the classic Okkervil River overdubbing method, wherein one piles all the shit they can possibly conceive of onto a basic track and then, in a last-minute spasm of timidity and self-consciousness, pares the lion’s share of it away.
		I guess that’s part of the reason we decided to call the record Down the River of Golden Dreams.
	www.jound.com /okkervil/downtheriverstory.html (506 words)

	Okkervil River: Down the River of Golden Dreams: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A safe and sturdy middle ground is hard to find these days; you try to ride a fence too long and you wind up with your arm in a sling-- or worse.
		And so I take Okkervil River, for example: They seem to be pretty into their thing, be it alt-country or indie-folk or barnyard-to-dive bar-pop or what-the-fuck-have-you, and they seem pretty sincere about it-- which is the crux of the issue; but then again, you never can be too sure.
		Okkervil River perfectly deploys healthy doses of Hammond organ, Rhodes piano, Mellotrons, and Wurlitzer over the course of the album.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/o/okkervil-river/down-the-river-of-golden-dreams.shtml (513 words)

	The Story of Down the River of Golden Dreams
		I’d spent the year homeless and, because I had friends and was dating a girl there, recording in Bloomington seemed like a good excuse to take a month off in a friendly place.
		It seemed like “And I Have Seen the World of Dreams” and “No Hidden Track” were sort of related thematically, so I tried to make sure the other new songs I added fleshed out the theme a little.
		I did it with two passes of acoustic guitar, added a vocal, and suddenly the EP was done and the month was over.
	www.jound.com /okkervil/sleepandwakeupsongsstory.html (698 words)

	indieworkshop.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It’s also a perfect testament to their musicianship, with it’s tight acoustic strumming, drum’s that perfectly kiss the cadence of Sheff’s voice and Wurlitzer breaths that sculpt the song’s edges and periodically cut in on its pace.
		Okkervil River have more than just literary pretension, they have the genuine artifact of literary prowess, huge, hairy literary balls in fact.
		Down the River of Golden Dreams has the heft of an album that will surely outlast its first initial critical splashes.
	indieworkshop.com /music/504 (525 words)

	Las Vegas Mercury: Listening Station
		Down the River of Golden Dreams joins Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, Rickie Lee Jones's Pirates and American Music Club's Mercury as landmarks of spiritually uplifting despair.
		Blending the musical ambitions of Kurt Weill with the literary sensibility of James Joyce, Sheff yelps, purrs and wails about the broken dreams of unlovable romantics, the bittersweet tenderness of unfaithful spouses and the sorrowful regrets of war criminals.
		Down the River of Golden Dreams showcases Sheff's remarkable talents as an alchemist: He turns the narcissistic ennui of the prematurely jaded into a thrilling revelation, and he transforms the grubby, dissonant words of the forsaken into mad bursts of poetry.--Robert Chancey
	www.lasvegasmercury.com /2004/MERC-Jan-15-Thu-2004/22967770.html (818 words)

	>>>> foxy digitalis online :: okkervil river - down the river of golden dreams <<<< (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		We all hope to produce something as articulate and beautiful as Okkervil River's "Down the River of Golden Dreams." The thing about this album is that it really isn't anything new; it's something old done remarkably better.
		From the opening guitar plucks of "It Ends With a Fall" to the last gasps of "Seas Too Far to Reach," Okkervil River's third album is brimming with life.
		I would have never thought a band like Okkervil River had this in them, and that's what makes it so effective; it suckerpunches you in the stomach and leaves you gasping for air.
	www.foxydigitalis.com /foxyd/okkervil_golden.html (604 words)

	Canadians Raise Their Voices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A seaway to tame a great river, with foresight and skill opened ships from the ocean to Ontario's deep ports, accessibility confirmed to ourselves and the world.
		It is this attitude that is leading Canada down the path to foreign ownership.
		Freedom of speech, the freedom to vote, and the freedom to wake up in the morning and the biggest problem one must face is what to have for breakfast, rather than how one will survive the day, is what makes Canada a fair nation.
	www.canadianactionparty.ca /MainPages/cwsEssays.asp?Language=English (15473 words)

	riverfronttimes.com \| \| Music \| Take Me to the River \| 2004-03-10 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sheff, the lead singer and chief songwriter for the Austin-based Okkervil River, is not bound to fail in the sense of the '70s proto-punk, the stymied Reagan youth or the well-postured slacker of Generation X. Sheff, by abandoning his plans of becoming a writer and focusing instead on songwriting, has joyfully joined the losers' bracket.
		Even the name Okkervil River comes from a short story by Russian author Tatyana Tolstoya (and you thought that quoting Chekhov was hot), and while that may seem to be the height of disaffected intellectualism, Sheff strives for accessibility.
		While much of the appeal of Okkervil River comes from Sheff and his literary approach to pop, it's the music itself that allows such an easy entrance into the band's world.
	www.rftstl.com /issues/2004-03-10/music.html (1342 words)

	erasing clouds
		Confession time: until we ran an interview with Okkervil River on the site last week, their latest CD Down the River of Golden Dreams had been sitting on my desk unplayed for nearly a month.
		Okkervil River's country-ish rock songs are bespeckled with organ, banjo, brass, strings and more, giving singer/guitarist Will Sheff's raw, heartwrenching stories a pretty, textured bed in which to lie.
		The world of Down the River is filled with beauty and tenderness, but also terror and hardship.
	erasingclouds.com /1029musicreviews.html (1664 words)

	Music Preview: Okkervil River reflects the restlessness and literary skills of its frontman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Okkervil River has risen to the level of critical darling, embraced by the No Depression scene, while falling somewhere between the earthy weariness of Wilco and the swelling emo-chamber pop of Bright Eyes.
		One of the standouts on the band's third record, "Down the River of Golden Dreams," is "The War Criminal Rises and Speaks," an explosive song that explores how we can go about our daily lives and somehow process the horrors of war.
		"I like 'Down the River.' There are some places where we didn't accomplish fully what I wanted to do, but I think everyone feels that way about their record.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04135/315935.stm (824 words)

	Okkervil River: Black Sheep Boy: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On Okkervil River's fourth album, Black Sheep Boy, he oversings beyond the limits of taste and vocal cords, either belting the notes forcefully or overenunciating his syllables at quieter moments.
		Black Sheep Boy creates a roomy and natural showcase for Sheff's high-wire vocals, and as a result, it may be the band's best album, the crest of a wave that began with 2003's Down the River of Golden Dreams and rose through a subsequent EP and two releases by sister band Shearwater.
		Okkervil River's major accomplishment-- what sets Black Sheep Boy farthest apart from previous efforts-- is the sense of purpose to these songs: they sound studiously literate, melodic, and concise, which bolsters their cumulative effect.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/o/okkervil-river/black-sheep-boy.shtml (581 words)

	Okkervil River: Down the River of Golden Dreams Aversion.com Review
		While Okkervil River has expressed no interest in joining the resistance, it does refuse to conform to the tawdry clichés of the unplugged contingent’s affected (or worse, genuine) restraint, sowing instead a middle ground that is distinct from either faction.
		Down the River of Golden Dreams, the third full-length from the Austin-based quartet, is alternately gripping and monotonous, but it’s never dishonest.
		Vocalist Will Sheff’s lyrics, and his ragged and heartfelt delivery —when he isn’t falling apart at the seams, he’s about to — are constant throughout, and his neurotic impulses and the band’s near perfect chamber-pop arrangements offset the few forgettable tunes.
	www.aversion.com /bands/reviews.cfm?f_id=1542 (371 words)

	Tiny Mix Tapes: Okkervil River
		Black Sheep Boy is Sheff's band Okkervil River's third full-length, which complements a sizeable discography of musical miscellany produced since the band's first EP dropped in 1998.
		Ostensibly a dirgey, occasionally waltzy folk-rock outfit, Okkervil River differs from some of their more dyed in the wool contemporaries in both lyrical content and delivery, with an extremely well-developed pop sensibility.
		Black Sheep Boy sees Okkervil River moving further away from the slow-mid tempo (with the staff notation "dejectedly" or "achingly," perhaps) plodders of the pretty-good Down the River of Golden Dreams, really opening things up with some motherfucking guitars.
	www.tinymixtapes.com /musicreviews/o/okkervil_river.htm (346 words)

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