I Am Very Far (studio album) by Okkervil River

I Am Very Far by Okkervil River
Year: 2011
Release date: 2011-05-10
Overall rank: 15,090th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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Award Top albums of the 2010s (3,279th)
Award Best albums of all time (15,090th)
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Okkervil River bestography

I Am Very Far is ranked 5th best out of 13 albums by Okkervil River on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Okkervil River is Black Sheep Boy which is ranked number 2943 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 517.

Okkervil River album bestography « Higher ranked (9,372nd) This album (15,090th) Lower ranked (17,937th) »
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From 02/25/2017 01:18
Okkervil River hasn't been the most prolific band of the 2010's, but they might be the most consistent. Everything they've recorded in this decade has been somewhere in the zone between indie rock and indie folk, often inflected by the New England landscapes of frontman Will Sheff's childhood and the alt-country environs of the band's current home of Austin, Texas. It's a formula that has brought the band much critical praise and a loyal, if not massive, following. I Am Very Far is a polished piece of work, and while it lacks the one transcendent track that makes some of their other albums so memorable, it does include the painful and evocative lyrics of "Your Past Life as a Blast": "I'll tell you what I didn't say / I'll tell you about the way I really miss him / You tell them what you want to tell them / Tell them 'bout the way you really loved her." Sung like a man who knows heartache about as well as any songwriter alive.
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Okkervil River goes for carefully orchestrated arrangements and well-crafted lyrics. And they do it well, this is definitely an album worth checking out.
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From 12/15/2011 22:32
Not as complicated as their last pseudo-concept album, this one drops the pretense and simply rocks out as okkervil river can. It sounds a little more delicate and grand than past (dark) albums (like "black sheep boy"), but it's a welcome change.
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