Okkervil River share new album In The Rainbow Rain details


Okkervil River




Okkervil River are back with the new song Don’t Move Back To LA.

“This song had a very straightforward impulse behind it: a bunch of my best friends all moved to LA and I was really sad about it so I wrote a song about how I didn’t want them to leave,” Will Sheff explains.

“I’m specifically referring to them through some of the nicknames in the song. I think the song is also kind of about my own deep and long-held desire to get the hell out of New York City, which for years I felt was suffocating me but which I couldn’t manage to leave.”

An album entitled In The Rainbow Rain will be released on April 27th; a UK gig at the London Koko has been arranged for October 10th.

“Ironically, by the very end of recording In the Rainbow Rain I had worked up the courage and had made a solid plan to finally get out of New York City,” Sheff continues. “I got Shawn Everett’s final mix of Don’t Move Back to LA in my inbox the morning of the move, and I remember listening to it in my headphones while walking to buy bagels and coffees for the drive.”

“Listening to the song again – and specifically the line, ‘You can have your New York City back’, as we left town via the BQE felt triumphant. I’d written a line in a song and then managed to make the line happen in real life.”


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