{"id":14687,"date":"2013-01-15T16:29:56","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T00:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=14687"},"modified":"2013-01-15T17:33:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T01:33:49","slug":"now-hear-this-will-sheffs-new-solo-project-lovestreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-01\/now-hear-this-will-sheffs-new-solo-project-lovestreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Hear This: Will Sheff’s New Solo Project “Lovestreams”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Earlier today Okkervil River’s<\/strong> tremendously talented leader Will Sheff<\/strong><\/a> announced that he had gone underground.\u00a0 Literally.\u00a0 Sheff explains<\/strong>:\u00a0 “In the early part of last year I finally got a dedicated recording space. It was something I\u2019d dreamed of having for my whole life but I had never really been able to make it work until then. It\u2019s located in Brooklyn, in a basement down by the East River, a dingy but high-ceilinged room at the end of a long, damp hallway. In the late 90s a writer named John Wray had lived in this one room and he wrote his first novel there, sleeping inside a tent to keep out the rats. I think that story clinched it for me when I was looking at it. I liked the idea of so much thinking happening there. I started going in [to the space] and working every day of the week there, just shutting the door and writing until evening. I decided to do a project there I\u2019d wanted to do for years and years, which is to make an album by myself and for myself, an album that doesn\u2019t owe anything to music I made before. When I finished the album I decided I\u2019d give some the songs away for free since it cost almost nothing to make.\u00a0 The name of the project is Lovestreams<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

With Lovestreams<\/strong>, Sheff has gone Postal (Service)<\/strong> and taken a page out of Ben Gibbard’s<\/strong> electronic book (although Sheff’s is a solo side-project).\u00a0 Today Sheff has released new song Shock<\/strong> Corridor<\/strong><\/em> under the Lovestreams<\/strong> moniker.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0And now we can’t stop hitting repeat (at eleven, and not holding) and re-reading the song’s lyrics.\u00a0 Once again, Sheff has combined a scintillating soundtrack with carefully honed, cutting lyrics, and destroyed us.\u00a0 Sheff has done so for years in the primarily guitar-driven Okkervil River<\/strong>, but the new machined-sounds mesh perfectly with the word-alliterati on these basement-tapes. \u00a0There are few in music writing lyrics as incisive as Sheff’s (only John Darnielle, John K. Samson, Conor<\/strong> Oberst<\/strong> (say what you will, haters), and Leonard Cohen <\/strong>immediately come to mind).\u00a0 Anyone writing lyrics as stirring and penetrating as the following deserves your undivided attention: “A pictorial of you alone in your room, fighting off suicide furiously, with the Astronettes bootleg and a bent-back spoon,” and “A lie for a single pageview[Lefort–don’t we know], courtesy of the assailant-who-loves-you,” and “So punch the day in the face and charge through a haze of gorse [Lefort-nice gisduise], behind you, your own mother\u2019s living ghost tears her hair out.”\u00a0 Pick out your own favorites below.\u00a0 We can’t wait to hear more from Sheff<\/strong> and Lovestreams.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Listen to this great song below and can go HERE<\/strong><\/a> to download your own copy.<\/p>\n