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Will Sheff

Con un atto di liberazione ed autodeterminazione, Will Sheff si libera dalle vesti di Okkervil River affrontando una resa dei conti emotivamente cruda, con forte identità e speranza, offuscando i confini tra finzione e autobiografia, surrealismo e umorismo, stoicismo e una spiritualità sempre più profonda. Il suo viaggio non poteva che passare dallo sPAZIO211 a Torino.

Dopo nove album acclamati dalla critica, innumerevoli bar, club, teatri e festival, dopo due interi decenni, Will Sheff sta lasciando che Okkervil River vada alla deriva in mare con Nothing Special, una raccolta ricca e cinematografica che segna l'acclamato cantautore indipendente prima uscita a suo nome. Scritto durante un periodo di dolorosa perdita e profonda trasformazione e registrato con un mix di vecchi amici e nuovi collaboratori (tra cui il cantautore Christian Lee Hutson, il batterista dei Dawes Griffin Goldsmith e il pianista dei Death Cab For Cutie Zac Rae).

Con Nothing Special, Sheff inizia il suo prossimo e più avvincente capitolo.

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After nine critically acclaimed albums, after twenty bandmates, after countless bars and clubs and theaters and festivals, after two full decades, Will Sheff is letting Okkervil River drift out to sea with Nothing Special, a rich and cinematic collection that marks the acclaimed indie songwriter’s first release under his own name. Written through a period of painful loss and deep transformation and recorded with a mix of old friends and new collaborators (including singer/songwriter Christian Lee Hutson, Dawes drummer Griffin Goldsmith, and Death Cab For Cutie pianist Zac Rae), the record represents more than just a change in name; it’s an act of liberation and self-determination, an emotionally raw reckoning with grief, identity, and hope that blurs the lines between fiction and autobiography, surrealism and humor, stoicism and a deepening spirituality.

Formed in Austin, TX, Okkervil River embraced both frenetic rock and cerebral complexity as bandmates came and went over its twenty year run, but the group’s north star always remained firmly fixed in Sheff’s emotional vocals and striking lyrics, which could turn even the most seemingly mundane observations into profound philosophical revelations. NPR hailed the New Hampshire native’s “dazzling” way with words, while Pitchfork declared him “one of indie rock’s most ambitious thinkers,” and The New York Times raved that he “writes like a novelist.”

With Nothing Special, Sheff begins his next and most compelling chapter yet.

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