Okkervil River figurehead Will Sheff dug into his family' own archives for the "Your Past Life As A Blast" clip, appropriating his father's Super 8 footage. Sheff explains in the press release, in case you want some proper context:
The lyrics to “Your Past Life as a Blast” deal with a lot of different things and in a kind of disarranged way, but it felt to me like it was the sweetest moment on the record, a moment of nostalgia and tenderness and sunnyness. When I was writing the lyrics, certain images flashed in my head, and some of those images were specifically from my childhood, or of the way I remember earliest childhood feeling to me.
Like many kids of the late '70s and early '80s, my dad was often hovering around with a Super 8 camera, filming my mom and me and –- as time passed –- my younger brother and sister. I remember him projecting these movies on a bare wall and, eventually, the movies becoming as much a part of my memory as the original events he had filmed. I thought it would be cool to use actual footage of those memories in the video itself, to make a really personal kind of rock video.
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The MP3, for keeps:
Okkervil River - "Your Past Life As A Blast"
The band also announced some fall tour dates:
10/12 -- Perth, Australia @ Capitol
10/14 -- Melbourne, Australia @ The Forum Theater
10/15 -- Meeniyan, Australia @ Meeniyan Town Hall
10/16 -- Melbourne, Australia @ The Toff (Will Sheff solo)
10/18 -- Sydney, Australia @ Metro Theater
10/19 -- Brisbane, Australia @ The Hi-Fi
11/04 -- Austin, TX @ Fun Fun Fun Fest
11/10 -- Barcelona, Spain @ Teatro Coliseum
11/11 -- El Puerto de Santa Maria, Spain @ Milwaukee
11/12 -- Valencia, Spain @ Mirror
11/14 -- Munich, Denmark @ Backstage
11/15 -- Cologne, Denmark @ Luxor
11/16 -- Paris, France @ Cafe de la Danse
11/18 -- Dublin, Ireland @ The Button Factory
11/19 -- Glasgow, Scotland @ Oran Mor
11/20 -- Manchester, England - Sound Control
11/21 -- Bristol, England @ Trinity
11/22 -- London, England @ Koko
11/24 -- Haarlem, Netherlands @ Patronaat
11/25 -- Brussels, Belgium @ Botanique Orangerie
11/26 -- Utrecht, Netherlands @ Tivoli
I Am Very Far is out now on Jagjaguwar.
