Download Okkervil River Covers EP 'Golden Opportunities 3'

Texan alt-rock band Okkervil River released their seventh studio album, The Silver Gymnasium, earlier this year and have followed that up with an EP of cover songs, that they have made available to download for free. Their most recent studio album is vaguely conceptual, and focuses on frontman Will Sheff's experience of growing up in Meridian, New Hampshire in the eighties, and this EP, called Golden Opportunities 3 (which is part of a series of cover EPs), appropriately features covers of songs from the same era, including cuts by Wang Chung, Don Henley, George Benson and Cyndi Lauper's famous cover of Brains' song 'Money Changes Everything'. Listen to the EP below and download it over here.

Okkervil River are heading to New Zealand in February 2014. Head over here to check out tour information and to look at tickets.