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9.1
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A.V. Club
Even at its fever-dreamiest, the record projects an urgency that marks it as a product of Okkervil River
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9.0
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Under The Radar
Certainly one of the best records of the year, but looking at this stretch of recordings with such a finite lens is doing them a disservice: this is music to cherish forever
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9.0
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BBC
Fifty-one literate, intense minutes long, I Am Very Far isn’t very far short of magnificent.
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9.0
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Drowned In Sound
Both a likely contender for the finest indie rock record of the year, then, and a breathtakingly chaotic venture far beyond that genre’s remit
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9.0
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Slant Magazine
Okkervil River's most challenging work to date, but it's also the group's most grandiose, thrilling, and brilliant
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8.0
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FasterLouder
A worthy investment alongside their brilliant catalogue
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8.0
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The Quietus
Happy endings are in short supply here, but for those who like their popcorn salty this engaging, immersive album offers plenty to chew on
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8.0
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DIY
Although the album lacks such slacker anthems as 'Our Life is Not a Movie, or Maybe' or 'For Real,' this album has a stand out all its own: its production
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8.0
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Daily Telegraph
Between the Decemberists and Arcade Fire
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8.0
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Prefix
Another fine album in an increasingly finer canon
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8.0
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Mojo
Accolades for his songwriting should rightly follow. Print edition only
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The Guardian
The overwhelming sense is of a band trying to push forward and simultaneously disrupt the smoothness of their own progress: it could be a mess, but it isn't
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8.0
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The Observer
There are nods to the unashamed cleverness of Talking Heads, with frontman Will Sheff's lyrics never less than intriguing
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Spin
These are the knottiest songs that Sheff has ever written, often recalling Dylan in deep-basement mode
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8.0
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Uncut
There's a demented exhilaration here - the noise they make is thrilling
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8.0
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Q
There's a newfound sense of pushing boundaries. Print edition only
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Entertainment.ie
I Am Far is without doubt Okkervil River back on top form
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7.9
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Pitchfork
A lyrically and musically feisty album
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7.0
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PopMatters
Frustrates with its lack of clear intentions, it also fascinates for the same reason
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7.0
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musicOMH
Fans can expect to find Sheff in typically melodramatic mood on this album; song compositions are just as ambitiously intriguing and elaborate at times
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7.0
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Bowlegs
A band clearly perfecting the knack of dramatising clever, tense narratives, with an effective musical urgency
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7.0
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Consequence Of Sound
I Am Very Far is Okkervil River’s longest effort to date (by a mere few minutes) and it feels like it
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7.0
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Rolling Stone
A dense and hallucinatory album
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6.0
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Tiny Mix Tapes
[A] muted disappointment
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6.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
At times brilliant, at times extremely frustrating, I Am Very Far has all the elements of a good record, but doesn’t ever quite reach the level you want it to
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6.0
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NME
A shining highlight is ‘Piratess’, which sounds like Scott Walker fronting ‘This Is Hardcore’-era Pulp
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Beats Per Minute
Their weakest album to date
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