Okkervil River: Mermaid

Okkervil River: Mermaid - 12-INCH SINGLE

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Title:

Mermaid

Artist:

Okkervil River

Label:

Jagjaguwar

Product Type:

12-INCH SINGLE

UPC:

656605218410

Genre:

Indie Rock/Pop

Release Date:

2011-02-08

Number of Discs:

1

"Mermaid" is the darkest song you'll hear all year: A self-contained fable shot through with evocative and disturbing imagery but rising to a sweeping, romantic, oddly moving climax. This waltz-time ballad gestures towards the tattered folk of Okkervil River's beloved 2005 album Black Sheep Boy, but somehow unearths something much more mysterious and blurrily ambiguous. With "Walked Out on a Line" we get a glimpse of what might further emerge. Choral and atmospheric and stripped of any of the acoustic textures that have defined much of the band's past work.

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