
“Mermaid” is the darkest song you’ll hear all year: a self-contained fable shot through with evocative and disturbing imagery but rising to a sweeping, romantic, oddly moving climax. This waltz-time ballad gestures towards the tattered folk of Okkervil River’s beloved 2005 album Black Sheep Boy, but somehow unearths something much more mysterious and blurrily ambiguous.
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