Will Sheff – review

St Pancras Old Church, LondonThere is something not quite right about Will Sheff playing a solo show. 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. Reduce the accompaniment to a handful of chords and a whisper of harmonica, and you lose much of what makes Okkervil River enticing.So this gig ...

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