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2LP released: Feb 08, 2011

Tracklisting:
1. Mermaid
2. Walked Out On A Line
OKKERVIL RIVER
MERMAID
Label: JAGJAGUWAR
Cat No: JAG184
Barcode: 0656605218410
Packaging: 2LP

"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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