Okkervil River - The Stand Ins

Somehow I've found myself listening to Okkervil River over the whole of this year, first The Stage Names, then Black Sheep Boy, and now The Stand Ins, which is just as good as the others (although The Stage Names stands out slightly from the other two, perhaps because it was the first one that I listened to). My favourite song on the album is also its longest at six and a bit minutes - "Blue Tulip", which goes for broke in the 'fraught indie epic' stakes and completely pulls it off.