Will Sheff

A fine dusting of snow can be very pretty particularly when viewed from a warm building with perhaps a beverage of choice close at hand. It's less amusing when standing on a railway station platform watching the trains get later and later or so late they just get cancelled.

It’s one thing to look back and remember your childhood or high school years when an album touched you but it is another thing when you can look back at a decade and see pretty much the same person you are today.

Across six albums – the latest I Am Very Far is released in May – his band Okkervil River have blossomed into a thrillingly dynamic outfit who embed their leader's prolix perspicacious lyrics in muscular rhythms and surprisingly playful melodies.

In his recent solo appearance at Black Cat, Will Sheff played “Okkervil River, RIP.” The song was actually recorded with Okkervil River, the alt-country/psych-folk band he led for nearly two decades.

Local Jimmy Stewart opened proceedings met with a sparse five-meter canyon at the foot of the stage as patrons amassed by the bar.

St. Pancras Old Church, London, UK

Okkervil River’s Will Sheff in Williamsburg