This week I’ll highlight another of my all-time favourite bands. When I went to see them in Shepherd’s Bush Empire (with the Dodos!) I hadn’t yet heard the new album and was blown away by the new songs. It really is an extraordinary album, which was originally devised as the second part of The Stage Names (as the matching artwork shows), another extraordinary album. This one has a surprising farewell song, Lost Coastlines, with Shearwater’s Jonathan Meiburg doing a smooth vocal along with Will Sheff, which makes this song one of the most memorable songs, comparing their experience as a band to an epic boat journey, and collapsing into an epic chant of “la la la”. Also lyricswise, some very interesting meta criticism of pop singers in Pop Lie, “and you’re lying when you sing along”. Instrumentally diverse and very unique, highly recommended indeed!

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Update: I guess I forgot to mention the band I was talking about! It was in the cover art, but for the record I’m talking about the awesome american band Okkervil River.