Okkervil River's new full-length album "The Stand Ins" is the sequel to 2007's critically acclaimed "The Stage Names", which Pitchfork praised as "...one of the year's best," with The New York Times proclaiming, "This band's musical arsenal keeps getting fuller. "The Stand Ins" was recorded in Austin and produced by longtime collaborator Brian Beattie and Okkervil River. The album features 11 songs and includes the track "Lost Coastlines," on which Sheff and recently departed Jonathan Meiburg of Shearwater share a duet on the joys and hardships of trying to keep the band together. Of the processWill Sheff explains, "We had so many songs we were excited about that we briefly threw around the idea of just putting out a double record. Instead, we ... read more