Villagers
Becoming A Jackal

Piano riddles, brisk guitar bashing, bells glistening, violins soaring and tortured artistic melancholia laced lyrics. Okay we get it already; nobody ...

Villagers’ Conor J. O’Brien is a bright spark in a soggy forest of indie singer-songwriters. The Irish strummer has assembled a solid debut of earnest...

Conor O'Brien is undoubtedly reminiscent of another indie rocking artist named Conor....

Villagers’ debut LP comes so close to being a wonderful listening experience: the indie-folk sound is full and clear, the instrumentation is percussiv...

They're being hailed as one of the most illuminating outfitson the generally low-lit nu-folk scene, but the brilliance of the Villagersdoesn't derive ...

Becoming a Jackal, written and performed entirely by Irish singer-songwriter Conor O’Brien, is the stuff of a modernist’s pure and beseeching naiveté....

It's difficult to comfortably describe Becoming a Jackal. The album isn't particularly experimental but also doesn't sound like a retread of the singe...

You already know a band is a big deal if they can open for Neil Young before their full length is even released. Dublin's Villagers is basically a one...

Conor O'Brien, slight-framed leader of earnest folk-rock project Villagers, tells his publicist he's "terrified of bands." No wonder: The Dublin-based...

Despite all the praise Villagers have been attracting, it's still surprising that they are not even bigger. This is, after all, a band that reached nu...