Okkervil River

Okkervil River released their seventh studio full-length record The Silver Gymnasium on September 3 via ATO Records. Produced by John Agnello (Kurt Vile, Dinosaur Jr., John Mellencamp, Cyndi Lauper), The Silver Gymnasium takes place in 1986 in the small town of Meriden, NH where Okkervil River bandleader Will Sheff grew up in this isolated hamlet of fewer than 500 residents. “Meriden was always a special place… Because it was locked away in my memory, I began to romanticize it.” From its inception, Sheff imagined The Silver Gymnasium as an album that might live in your car’s tape deck for years, the cassette art fading slowly from sun damage. “I wanted to make a record that was friendly, sweet and compassionate, and made people feel good when they heard it.”