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Shearwater is a band in which I co-write and split singing duties with Jonathan Meiburg, who plays Wurlitzer and accordion in Okkervil River. General Comment Country music was made for singing about murder, and this song is about how we just want to condemn people who do bad things without bothering to think about what may have caused them to do those things. General Comment I came to SongMeanings to figure out the exact words to this line: We didn't have any over-arching theme in mind for the album - which doesn't mean there isn't a theme - but we tried to make the different songs on it all subtly rhyme in places. Songs that detailed a mood, a sense of place and character. Still, when the record came out a lot of people referred to it as 'alt.

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I'll be doing some tours with Okkervil and in support of the new Shearwater album in the fall and winter. Well, maybe we wouldn't have done that anyway being modest and rather nervous, as we are but just as we were voicing our displeasure and musical ennui, as it often does in life, something came to remind us what we both found so alluring and enchanting about music in the first place.

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I want to be the kind of artist who consistently sets up for myself challenges that I might not be able to rise to, so if I don't fail sometimes it should okkervi that the challenges weren't outrageous enough.

But some critics are lazy and, as soon as they hear the pedal steel and mandolin on our record, overlook the horn section and the Wurlitzer. His writing seems, to me, to outline westall mystical truths about the way the world works on a spiritual level.

They caught one of the kids that did it, and there he was, on TV, and I westfal my co-workers looking at him and looking at him for the evil on his face.

Try to picture that. For me, accepting that and trying to live with it is easier than revolting against it. I wanted rifer play it on my radio show but there has been a serial killer on the loose and I don't think I wesffall get away with playing it so soon after they caught the supposed perputrator.

I like Borges because he mixes the unreal and the real in a way that seems so uncannily natural it immediately rings true and can't really be reduced to an explanation. He sees the world complexly and invests it, on the page, with the sloppy passion it deserves.

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There was an error. As for the accusations that 'Don't Fall In Love The music is more subdued, the songs are shorter, and Jonathan has a very different voice than I do - more of a choirboy falsetto.

If you think about writing the way a critic does - in terms of picking apart something that's already been finished - you won't even get started. Do you find being both music critic and musician produces a certain split in you? If you ever get a chance to see OR live, do it. Sure to make many people's best of the year lists, 'Don't Fall In Love So he kidnaps a woman and buries her alive. We do not have any tags for Westfall lyrics.

rived General Comment Country music was made for singing about murder, and this song is about how we just want to condemn people who do bad things without bothering to think about what may have caused them to do those things.

We then spent about a year working on rver with Brian Beattie, who is an extremely gifted engineer and who taught us, in the process of recording, a great deal about arranging and performing pop music. But there was also the sound of the band, banjos, pedal steels and fiddles mixed with horns, Wurlitzer and other sounds to create a fully realised vision, uncategorisable, sometimes recalling The Band, other times sounding like nothing but itself and, in Will Robinson Sheff, here was a vocalist who, like Mark Eitzel, could articulate heart-wrenching pain, loneliness, despair and happiness in the swoop of a line, the cutting off of a breath.

Or maybe it's just that you never can tell who the bad apple is going to be, take your pick.

General Comment This song is so haunting, but its so great. To determine whether he was actually as good as everyone seemed to believe he was, he decided to perform the most evil act he could think of to balance out the good deed. Their version of "Westfall" is sped up and rocked out. User does not exist. We're coming up on the second album now and are very excited - it'll be released on Misra here in the States.

Again, on the website, when one clicks on the FAQ, there is only one question and one answer - "We are not an alt. How does that affect what you do in the band? It's about murder in general and about how as Will Sheff said "I remember my co-workers looking at him and looking at him for the evil on his face. Tell me a little about your side project, Shearwater, and your recent tour with Swearing at Motorists.

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I don't want to make safe art, conservative art, or tidy art - I want to make a mess. At the show I attended a mini mosh pit even formed.