Villagers's Conor O'Brien wrote and recorded nearly everything on Becoming A Jackal himself, and it's his clipped, quavering voice you'll notice first on "Ship Of Promises." You'll hear Arcade Fire and Conor Oberst in equal parts, but O'Brien is restrained, pulling back the one place where you expect this song to explode or turn melodramatic. Villagers is O'Brien plus some ...