Okkervil River announce November UK tour, debut new video

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Okkervil River will play a handful of UK shows in November to coincide with the release of their latest single.

The video to ‘Your Past Life As A Blast’ is as “now” as their sunkissed and nostalgia-drenched promo photos. And by “now”, we mean it contains old holiday footage from the 1970s. Of course.

Singer Will Shelf spoke of the idea for the video, available to stream below.

“For the ‘Your Past Life As A Blast’ video, I worked with the editor Alan Del Río Ortíz to turn my dad’s home movies into a short condensed film of someone’s childhood, a little home-movie music video, about moms and dads and kids, and how it felt.”

He expanded on the song, which features on the band’s sixth full-length I Am Very Far.

“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.”

The full UK tour dates are as follows:

November
11 – Oran Mor, Glasgow
20 – Sound Control, Manchester
21 – Trinity Centre, Bristol
22 – Koko, London

Tickets are available here.