Will Sheff's band built a catalog of stark, melodic songs that balance folk intimacy with darker themes.
If you're new to them, start with "Black Sheep Boy" and the more recent "Love To A Monster." That gives you the range from their indie peak to where they've landed lately.
The band's 2005 album "Black Sheep Boy" gave indie rock one of its genuine anthems in the title track. That record showed how they could wrap Sheff's poetic lyrics in arrangements that felt both chamber-folk delicate and rock-solid. Songs like "A King And A Queen" and "Black" from that album still define their particular blend of melody and shadow.
They formed in Austin in 1998, naming themselves after an obscure Ukrainian folk song. Their 2002 debut "Don't Fall in Love with Everyone You See" established their sound, and they've released albums steadily ever since, through lineup changes and records like "The Stage Names" and "In the Rainbow Rain."
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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