River ... — Archivo De Descarga Will Sheff, Okkervil

The story features a lonely protagonist obsessed with an aging, forgotten romance singer from a bygone era. Entranced by the beautiful, melancholic imagery and the idea of preserving forgotten art, Sheff adopted it as the band's name.

Rather than acting as a standard greatest hits compilation, the archive tells the history of the band chronologically through raw, sweat-soaked live performances captured at dive bars and major festival stages across the globe. Archivo de Descarga Will Sheff, Okkervil River ...

In the late 1990s, songwriter Will Sheff was reading a collection of short stories by the Russian writer Tatyana Tolstaya . The story features a lonely protagonist obsessed with