After roughly 20 years of releasing music with his band Okkervil River, Will Sheff is set to release an album for the first time under his own name and it’s nothing special. That is, the name of the album is Nothing Special, though perhaps Sheff called it that to lower people’s expectations, or simply to send the message that, really, it’s no big deal and just another album, albeit one not under the Okkervil River banner.
That said, while it still sounds undeniably like a Will Sheff song, there is enough going on sonically in lead single “Estrangement Zone” to differentiate it as its own thing separate from Okkervil River. Check it out below.
Nothing Special is due out October 7 via ATO Records.