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"Lost Coastlines"from the album The Stand Ins2008iTunesThe shore may appear familiar, but the waters run deep on "Lost Coastlines," the lead single from Okkervil River's upcoming The Stand Ins. If the new record is the second part of a double album begun with last year's great Black Sheep Boy follow-up The Stage Names, it's possibly significant that this song appears in the same slot on The Stand Ins that "Unless It's Kicks" occupied on its predecessor. On that song, Will Sheff's intensely self-reflexive lyrics urged a "mid-level band" on to greater heights; "Lost Coastlines" is a darker, more metaphorical take...