november 12, 2008

murder he wrote (or) the stand ins.

i admit it, i wasn't expecting a great album, what with their last album departing from their original style, but there was some hope... maybe, maybe, maybe they'd pull through. i know, it's a tired lament. still i can't help but indulge myself.

in the words of outkast:

took a shower kinda sour cause my favorite group ain't comin with it
but i'm witch you cause you probably goin through it anyway
but anyhow when in doubt went on out and bought it
cause i thought it would be jammin but examine all the flawsky-wawsky
awfully, it's sad and it's costly.

with that said, okkervil river's the stand ins is extremely disappointing. it's loose and poppy and thin, and nobody is murdered in the back seat of their battered mustang, boring...