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Fortunately, The Decemberists?? fans can relax: with “The Crane Wife,” Colin Meloy and company have delivered their sharpest, most accomplished album yet, and one of the best albums of the year...
...whiff of saltpeter hangs over “When the War Came,” The Decemberists?? most overtly political song. They bring out their heavy guitars and sound almost like a mainstream rock band—except for lyrics like “We made our huts of avaram / We’d not betray the sole Ledum...
...crowd collectively giggled, and began to bubble with anticipation for the next tune. His first one had, indeed, been about a gypsy girl—“Shiny,” from the Decemberists?? debut EP—and now the mass of music-loving intellectuals were probably, on the whole, expecting their hero to launch into a number with lyrics culled directly from real-life experiences. So it was little surprise that an even larger collective giggle erupted when the next song turned out to be the beautiful, but sublimely fictional, “My Mother...
...Chattanooga Springs” is one of the most reflective and haunting pieces in the show. Set to the Decemberists?? “Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect,” it uses the setting of classic small-town America to comment on the corruption of modernity. Through the loss of its characters’ innocence—a boy takes a swig of alcohol for the first time, another takes the orange that a blind girl is carefully peeling and bites into it almost maliciously—the piece becomes a bittersweet expression of regret...
Brigands seemed to be all the rage in the first half of 2003, between Pirates of the Caribbean and the Decemberists?? first album. Even without Jack Sparrow’s swagger, Castaways and Cutouts won plenty of critical acclaim for its campfire-history trappings—pristine folk arrangements, overwrought theatrics, elaborate lyrics about ghosts and buccaneers...
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