The Decemberists MP3s

The Decemberists: covers archive

Here Comes The Flood — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:15:00 +0000

photo: Autumn DeWilde

You Ain’t No Picasso has put together a collection of dozens of covers played by The Decemberists and their lead singer Colin Meloy. They take on Pink Floyd, The Velvet Underground, Cheap Trick, Kate Bush and lots, lots more.

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Pop Tarts Suck Toasted — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:00:00 +0000

The Decemberists

The Hazards of Love
March 24th
Capitol Records
I suppose it shouldn't be surprising that The Decemberists would try and create a rock opera at some point in their career. Their last album, The Crane Wife, was damn close to being one itself and their has always been a cinematic feel to the stories within Colin Meloy's songs. But with everything linked together on The Hazards of Love, the songs kind of seem a little too overpowering at times. They are extremely dense songs, once again showing off Meloy's penchant for wordiness, but occasionally cluttered musically. It's almost as if The Decemberists tried to do too much for their rock opera. Still, there are a lot of good moments on here just none of those catchy moments that originally hooked us on this band.

The Decemberists - Hazards Of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle The Thistles Undone)

RCRDLBL — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:15:33 +0000

Portland indie darlings The Decemberists return this week with new album The Hazards of Love. You can always rely on Colin Meloy’s troupe to err towards the grandiose and the new record’s no different, if anything more preposterously overblown than ever before, its songs tied to a narrative involving illicit love, forest queens and murderous knaves. Courageous story-tellers in a time of meta-narratives, The Decemberists’ love of purple prose thrives in the spacious reaches of a rock-prog-blues that kind of sounds like The Who had they for a brief time become obsessed with A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Bombastic.