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| n/a by www.stylusmagazine.com |
I've listened to this album more than anything else released this year, and I still don't feel like I've fully explored its depths. |
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| n/a by www.musicomh.com |
An unknown quantity to me before the first listen, by the third play I was already plotting which of my friends I would be lending it to and reprimanding myself for not having come across them sooner. |
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| n/a by www.lostatsea.net |
It's hard not to stare in open-mouthed amazement at the sheer brilliance of Black Sheep Boy, though you're trying to clinically dissect all the elements that make it so. |
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| n/a by Popmatters |
Consistently excellent, Okkervil River's Black Sheep Boy is a record that stuns on first listen, then manages the elusive -- it sinks deep into your soul. |
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| n/a by www.austinchronicle.com |
The force of Okkervil's last LP, '03's Down the River of Golden Dreams, is strengthened and stretched on Black Sheep Boy, bursting with the heaviness of heart. |
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| n/a by Pitchfork Media |
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. |
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| n/a by www.cokemachineglow.com |
With Black Sheep Boy, Okkervil River have made the kind of minor classic that will inspire obsessive-compulsive love affairs with the lucky people who stumble upon it. |
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| n/a by Junkmedia |
By album's end, two coming-of-age stories are complete: the boy has grown into a black sheep man, and the literate musicians have become a hell of a rock band. |
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| n/a by www.tinymixtapes.com |
It is heavier on quality than most Bright Eyes albums I could name -- both musically and lyrically. |
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| n/a by www.guardian.co.uk |
It could be a recipe for pretentious folly, but Sheff harnesses his intricate arrangements and barbed, literate lyrics to cracking tunes. |
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| n/a by neumu.net |
It's like Bright Eyes -- urgent, personal, pent-up -- but better; less focused on the individual ego of the "creative genius," more about the group dynamics. |
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| n/a by www.dustedmagazine.com |
Sheff’s delivery, however, is the Black Sheep Boy’s biggest flaw. |
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| n/a by www.noripcord.com |
These are essentially songs of innocence and experience tinctured by world-weariness simultaneously infused with an earnest lack of guile. A brief criticism would be: a little more sound and a little less fury, please Will. |
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| n/a by www.shakingthrough.net |
Black Sheep Boy has bold ambitions, but Okkervil River hasn’t quite reached the point where polished execution equals or surpasses preliminary concept. |
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