{"id":28219,"date":"2018-02-12T12:42:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T20:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=28219"},"modified":"2018-02-14T10:23:08","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T18:23:08","slug":"a-reason-to-get-out-of-bed-on-a-monday-new-okkervil-river-album-coming-listen-to-new-song-dont-move-back-to-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2018-02\/a-reason-to-get-out-of-bed-on-a-monday-new-okkervil-river-album-coming-listen-to-new-song-dont-move-back-to-la\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reason To Get Out of Bed On a Wednesday (Updated): New Okkervil River Album Coming–Listen to New Song “Don’t Move Back to LA”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Woke on Monday morning and found a reason to get out of bed. Long-time Lefort<\/strong>-faves,\u00a0Okkervil<\/span> River<\/span><\/strong><\/a>, this morning announced the release of their next album In the Rainbow Rain\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>in April, following on the heals of their superb last album Away<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 To get a feel, check out below the swaggering swing of new song, Don’t Move Back to LA\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(that drops a bit of dub in the break). The intermittently hilarious lyrics are at bottom (our best guess). The song bodes incredibly well for the new album. We can’t wait!<\/p>\n

Today, leader Will Sheff<\/strong> posted this explanatoin regarding the song: “I had pretty straightforward reasons for writing this song: I had a lot of friends all moving to LA around the same time and I didn’t want them to go. I think the song is also me rooting for myself to get out of NYC, and I feel like it’s also kind of about how you could make your hometown cooler if you went back and fought to elevate it. But one fun audio fact is that this is a first take. We recorded it once, it sounded good and we moved on to the next song.”<\/p>\n

Sheff<\/strong>\u00a0also has this to say about the impending album:<\/p>\n

“This time around everyone was in such a good mood that the music ended up capturing this new spirit of freedom and playfulness and joy and sounding totally different than\u00a0Away<\/em><\/strong>, even though my working approach was similar. I didn\u2019t really fight it, because everything felt so good. It was a really happy and productive period of music-making during a very terrifying (and ongoingly terrifying) time period, and I felt like it was appropriate to try to make something uplifting and encouraging. As ever, the band is augmented with all of these great players including string arrangements by Rob Moose, Frank LoCrasto<\/strong> and Jared Samuel<\/strong> on keys, Sharon Jones\u2019<\/strong> backup singer Saundra Williams<\/strong> leading a\u00a0vocal trio, Alex Spiegelman<\/strong> on sax and Cole Kamen-Green<\/strong> on trumpet, the legendary Jonathan Meiburg<\/strong> of course, and my good old inanimate friend Mr. CR-78 laying down some rhythms here and there. The whole thing was mixed by the incredible Shawn Everett<\/strong> with crazy bold hairy technicolor bravado. I\u2019m so proud of this thing \u2013 it\u2019s maybe the most fun Okkervil<\/span> River<\/span><\/strong> record ever. And it\u2019s going to be great playing it live.”<\/p>\n

Speaking of which, new tour dates can be found HERE<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0. The tour will include dates in Cali<\/strong> in late-May\/early-June, where it’s 70 out and we’re living at the ocean’s lip. \u00a0Tix go on sale this Friday, 2\/16. Whatever you do, don’t miss ’em. Their last two tours through these parts have been inspirational affairs.<\/p>\n

You can pre-order In the Rainbow Room<\/strong><\/em> HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n