Review: Okkervil River - Okkervil River - The Stand Ins

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Artist: Okkervil RiverReview: On this album-length sequel to last year's The StageNames, these Austin indie rockers continue to dissect thelooking-glass emptiness of life spent on the stage, as well as inthe cheap seats. "Fuck long hours, sick with singing," frontmanWill Sheff sings over slow-building, mariachi-style blues on "BruceWayne Campbell Interviewed on the Roof of the Chelsea Hotel, 1979,"a boozy, post-fame portrait of the late gay glam rockerJobraith.

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