“After a run of concept albums, Will Sheff's literate indie rock project returns with a collection of unrelated songs united by the dense production.”
“The sixth album from Okkervil River opens wide on "the valley of the rock and roll dead," frontman Will Sheff baying in anguish over a booming backbeat. The band’s past records may have favored a hyper-literate, near-narrative approach, but Far is a dense and hallucinatory album that seems to take place in what T.S. Eliot […]”
