Okkervil River - Stage Names Holmes With their second full-length album

With their second full-length album

and two shorter self-contained 6-minute pieces find the band at it's most devastatingly beautiful

as they reunited with producer Stephen Street

Walking in the Green Corn

Okkervil River - Stage Names Holmes With their second full-length albumThis record dynamites the moss covered castle walls of 2005's BLACK SHEEP BOY to let in the glaring sun. Riddled with characters real and fake, with the relics of high culture and the crumpled up trash of low culture, THE STAGE NAME is a cinemascopic take on the meaning of entertainment in the modern world. Reverberant with echoes of Motown snap and girl group pop, redolent with ripe whiffs of dirty rock'n'roll, shining with the shimmy of Bo Diddley,