“Okkervil River R.I.P.” by Okkervil River

"Okkervil River R.I.P." opens Away, the eighth album by American rock band Okkervil River, out on ATO on September 9, 2016. Will Sheff wrote and produced it at a time of upheaval on every front: the backing band had changed around him, and his grandfather had died. He has described the album as a death story for one part of his life, with a way forward hidden somewhere inside it, and an opener that holds a funeral for its own band's name is a fitting way in.

Phil Palazzolo engineered the track and Jonathan Wilson mixed it, as he did the whole record, which was made in New York. Sheff also directed the video himself, shot upstate, and it arrived on July 6, 2016, two months ahead of the album.

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