If you’re like me, you learned about Hardin because of Okkervil River, in a lesson of the folk rock canon that frontman Will Sheff reversed. Hardin was the inspiration for Black Sheep Boy, the band’s insidious masterpiece, and one of his songs, in particular, was the premise for the album’s exponential loneliness. “Let me live in peace”, one of Hardin’s rebel pleas, is where the album begins, but it’s a lie by the time the album ends, leaving its leading man pining like a monster pines for a princess, begging someone, anyone, to “come into the den”. On Sheff’s third album with his band, Hardin acts as a topic sentence that mutates.
His song, which lends its title to Black Sheep Boy, is just the start. That’s one Hardin story, and maybe it’s the best-told one. There’s another song of his, though, that fits Sheff’s music, and fits it better.
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