Name: Mermaid / Walked Out On A Line
Brand: Okkervil River

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

jag184

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Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2011-02-07

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

1 / 12" / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Okkervil River

Genre GB

Country / Americana

Label GB

this exclusive 12" with download from okkervil river precedes a brand new album. '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, 'walked out on a line' is a smooth-sailing symbolist fever-dream, fractured and impressionistic lyrics floating over a sea of sighing voices, glittering rhodes, and a gently driving beat. it's an ambitious statement about how much innovative fuel the band has to burn, an as fleeting a 5:20 song as you're likely to hear.

Mermaid / Walked Out On A Line

Music GB