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December 05, 2005
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The follow-up to Borrowed Tunes' #3 album of 2005 (that much is settled) doesn't quite measure up to its predecessor, but it does very well as an echo or a coda, as it is meant. You could look at it as a thematically organized collection of B-sides and find a few gems. You could also look to it for resolution: it becomes clear that the Black Sheep Boy was a kind of demon possessing the narrator, perhaps the one that gives him his songs ("there is no escaping the thing that is making its home in your radio"), and this is a kind of exorcism.
Perhaps simply due to its length, this disc doesn't have the wide-ranging scope of its parent, and in many ways it sticks to Okkervil's indie-folk core; it sounds not too different from a Bright Eyes disc in the process, with Will Sheff's vocal extensions and the swinging tempos.
Speaking of that, Bright Eyes seems to be a dual victim of the January curse and a sudden backlash - I haven't seen I'm Wide Awake It's Morning anywhere in year-end polls except mine, even though it was one of the 15 best-reviewed albums of the year.
Another Radio Song (mp3)
No Key No Plan (mp3) (courtesy of Jagjaguwar Records)
Posted by borrowed_tunes at December 5, 2005 09:56 PM
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