Plutôt calme ces derniers temps, le « Shef » d’Okkervil River a dévoilé son intention de de sortir un album solo cette année, sous le pseudo Lovestreams. L’inédit offert sur son site, s’intitule “Shock Corridor”, et a été enregistré l’année dernière à Crystal Snifter, Brooklyn. A notre grande surprise, le songwriter originaire d’Austin s’éloigne de la formule folk/rock americana d’Okkervil River pour des sonorités « electro ».

Voici son communiqué, in english.

« In the early part of last year I started renting a room down in a basement a couple neighborhoods over from my apartment in Brooklyn and I started going in and working every day of the week there, just shutting the door and writing until evening. I decided to do a project there I’d wanted to do for years and years, which is to make an album by myself and for myself, an album that doesn’t owe anything to music I made before. When I finished the album I decided I’d give some the songs away for free since it cost almost nothing to make. So here’s one of the songs, over here on this site. The name of the project is Lovestreams. »

“Shock Corridor” sur Soundcloud.