OMG... The Decemberists' new album.... HOLY SHIIIIIIIIIP IT!!!!

[elffaw]

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Does someone wanna PM me a hint on where I can get this? Since the invention of subscription music my pirating skills have pretty much dissapeared.

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[Emmitt2222]

After around 4 listens to I would say its a solid album, better than Picaresque for sure.

My favorite songs which I think are definitly think are worth at listen are
The Crane Wife 3
The Island ect.
The Crane Wife 1+2
O Valencia is also quite good, the girls voice works really well in the song.

[elffaw]

I have to agree, much better than Picaresque.


HOLY SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP IT!

[astroglide]

i have never even heard of the decembrists, so i'm starting with a totally blank canvas.

i'm don't like the guy's voice, but it's something i can probably overlook. to contrast, i like the lead singer of the thrills.

musically i think it's just okay. it's mechanically "inspired" in key moments, but it seems like prog rock 101.

the lyrics are what i cannot get past. WOW. it sounds like what system of a down would produce if they went to community college. thou, thee, water, riverside, zzzz...

it gets worse as i type this: the band is from portland, and the singer was born in montana. nice "irish" accent, dude! i guess i can't ignore the voice now.

i'm earnestly envious of those that hail this as the coming of christ, christ junior, or what have you. i wish i had something new to enjoy that much, but i'm going to have trouble making it to track 3.

[Jack of Arcades]

irish accent?

system of a down? will you compare the lyrics to mf doom next?

[Jack of Arcades]

btw, astro, you should check this out

[private joker]

ROFL @ thinking Colin Meloy is singing with an Irish accent... hahaha...

Anyway, the lyrics on this new album are incredible. It's a storybook tale set in the 19th century, and it's got murder (drowning to be specific), rape, incest, all the good stuff. Way to go. I'd quote it here but I don't have them.

So instead, here are Meloy's awesome lyrics for "Los Angeles, I'm Yours" from an earlier record:

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There is a city by the sea
A gentle company
I don’t suppose you want to
And as it tells its sorry tale
In harrowing detail
Its hollowness will haunt you
Its streets and boulevards
Orphans and oligarchs it hears
A plaintive melody
Truncated symphony
An ocean’s garbled vomit on the shore,
Los Angeles, I’m yours

Oh ladies, pleasant and demure
Sallow-cheeked and sure
I can see your undies
And all the boys you drag about
An empty fallow fount
From Saturdays to Mondays
You hill and valley crowd
Hanging your trousers down at heel
This is the realest thing
As ancient choirs sing
A dozen blushing cherubs wheel above
Los Angeles my love

Oh what a rush of ripe élan
Languor on divans
Dalliant and dainty
But oh, the smell of burnt cocaine
The dolor and decay
It only makes me cranky
Oh great calamity,
Ditch of iniquity and tears
How I abhor this place
Its sweet and bitter taste
Has left me wretched, retching on all fours
Los Angeles, I’m yours

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[elffaw]

btw, wtf is a crane wife?

[MarkSummers]

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Does someone wanna PM me a hint on where I can get this? Since the invention of subscription music my pirating skills have pretty much dissapeared.

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[private joker]

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btw, wtf is a crane wife?

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The lead character is a sad, lonely depressed man who strolls along the shores one day and discovers a wounded crane. He takes the crane in, nurses it back to life, and then the bird turns into a woman. He marries the woman, but then breaks some of the rules of their union, so she leaves him and he is once again sad, depressed, and alone.