{"product_id":"mermaid-walked-out-on-a-line","title":"Mermaid \/ Walked Out On A Line","description":"\u003cp\u003ethis exclusive 12\" with download from okkervil river precedes a brand new album. '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. with 'walked out on a line' we get a glimpse of what might further emerge. choral and atmospheric and stripped of any of the acoustic textures that have defined much of the band's past work, 'walked out on a line' is a smooth-sailing symbolist fever-dream, fractured and impressionistic lyrics floating over a sea of sighing voices, glittering rhodes, and a gently driving beat. it's an ambitious statement about how much innovative fuel the band has to burn, an as fleeting a 5:20 song as you're likely to hear.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"12\"","offer_id":50410492297547,"sku":"335788","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/8d2f5b11-964e-46d2-9405-5cb0207b98a3_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726642702","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/mermaid-walked-out-on-a-line","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}