I've heard rumblings that this was the direction.... I'm... soooo.... excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
This is right up his alley, creative writing... he started it with Crane Wife & Tain, it's time to go full blown. Why not!
twelve_strings- 11-19-2008
I love how Pitchfork took this Rolling Stones article from yesterday and just rewrote it with a snobby overtone. Excellent journalists, those guys.
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/11/18/in-the-studio-the-decemberists-return-with-fairy-tale-album/
Tsuru- 11-19-2008
lol!
Tsuru- 12-11-2008
More Pfuck news...
Hazards of Love, the forthcoming rock opera from the fliers of fancy in the Decemberists, is due March 24 from Capitol, according to Billboard.com (and confirmed by Capitol). Sporting 17 tracks with silly titles like "Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle the Thistles Undone)" and "Won't Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga)", the album is probably pretty ridic even by Decemberists standards.
Apart from previously reported guests Shara Worden of My Brigh-*test*-('") Diamond and Becky Stark of Lavender Diamond, Billboard.com notes that the disc is boosted by appearances from My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James, Robyn Hitchcock, and Rebecca Gates of the Spinanes. (UPDATE: Apparently Worden and Stark sing the parts of specific characters on the album!) The disc follows 2006's The Crane Wife LP and the band's recent string of singles under the Always the Bridesmaid umbrella.
Presumably because they have yet to secure an adequately large fog machine and foam forest backdrop, the Decemberists currently have no tourdates scheduled. But multi-instrumentalist Chris Funk appears on Target Heart, the forthcoming EP from Blue Giant, while John Moen once again lends his drums to the next one from Bob Pollard's Boston Spaceships.
Hazards of Love:
01 Prelude
02 Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle the Thistles Undone)
03 A Bower Scene
04 Won't Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga)
05 Hazards of Love 2 (Wager All)
06 The Queen's Approach
07 Isn't It a Lovely Night?
08 The Wanting Comes in Waves / Repaid
09 An Interlude
10 The Rake's Song
11 The Abduction of Margaret
12 The Queen's Rebuke / The Crossing
13 Annan Water
14 Margaret in Captivity
15 Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge!)
16 The Wanting Comes in Waves (Reprise)
17 The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned)
kidinthebigcity- 12-11-2008
I am extremely disappointed in the way The Decemberists are going. I really miss the older stuff and the whale. I'm sorry but I really hate prog-rock (no offense Tsuru) and this just makes me sad. I hearby denounce my love of Colin Meloy.
center52- 12-11-2008
DAMN!! 3 months before the new album?
Tsuru- 12-11-2008
I am extremely disappointed in the way The Decemberists are going. I really miss the older stuff and the whale. I'm sorry but I really hate prog-rock (no offense Tsuru) and this just makes me sad. I hearby denounce my love of Colin Meloy.
No apologies necessary, ever, for liking or not liking certain music! I'd imagine after this album, after going this far, assuming they keep on going and making albums, there will be a back to basics type of approach, clean & simple.... right? Go full circle.
I have no basis for thinking that, but that's the feeling I get. I'm hedging bets on a backlash on this album (not with me, necessarily, but in general).
gahrace- 12-11-2008
hmmm....
I just really want to listen to it. like RIGHT NOW.
Tsuru- 12-12-2008
well.... I got andrew bird to hold me over for a little bit. So, next thursday night would be great,please!
twelve_strings- 12-16-2008
I hearby denounce my love of Colin Meloy.
Oh, that made my heart hurt a little.
I'm with you on The Crane Wife. Not my favorite at all. It was especially disappointing coming right off the heels of Picaresque, which I listened to like crazy for an entire year without getting sick of it. But have faith! A couple of the songs off of the Always the Bridesmaid singles series that they just put out got me really excited about The Decemberists again. I love Record Year for Rainfall so, so much.
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