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Okkervil RiverThe Stand Ins81 Based on 5 reviews 2008 Ranking: #36 / 192
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REVIEWS
Life was a crummy movie on Okkervil River's breakthrough album, The Stage Names. On The Stand Ins, it's a lousy rock show. As the interchangeable titles and puzzle-piece album covers imply, this new record is an extension of its predecessor, a further untangling of themes and ideas about music, art, celebrity, love, and the folly of it all. The Stand Ins doesn't quite match the gusto and brainy emotionalism of The Stage Names but it exceeds its bleakness. Pop songs lie, tortured singer-songwriters are wealthy narcissists, groupies have regrets, music scenes wither, nothing changes. Rock promises redemption but delivers only destruction, or at best, cultish relative obscurity. Okkervil River are the anti-Hold Steady. They should tour together.
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RATINGS
| 90 | PopMatters |
| 80 | Drowned in Sound |
| 80 | musicOMH |
| 80 | Pitchfork |
| 70 | Tiny Mix Tapes |
| # 24 - | Drowned in Sound |
| # 44 - | musicOMH |
| # 19 - | No Ripcord |
| # 5 - | Paste |
| # 48 - | PopMatters |
| # 19 - | Spin |
- Stand Ins, One
- Lost Coastlines
- Singer Songwriter
- Starry Stairs
- Blue Tulip
- Stand Ins, Two
- Pop Lie
- On Tour with Zykos
- Calling and Not Calling My Ex
- Stand Ins, Three
- Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed on the Roof of the Chelsea Hotel, 1979
