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Twenty years ago this month, after rising to indie celebrity with a pair of well-received albums in quick succession, the Decemberists released The Tain, an EP comprising one nearly 19-minute song split into five movements. “The Tain” leaned hard into the literary folk-rock band’s prog-rock tendencies, foregrounding the hard-hitting electric guitars that only rarely popped up on their normal albums. I found it absolutely delightful at the time, and I’m happy to report that it still holds up.
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submitted by Nick Jan 27th 2011 01:00 pm (www.antimusic.com)
The Decemberists have scored their first-ever no. 1
submitted by Nick Jan 26th 2011 09:00 pm (stereogum.com)
According to Billboard, The King Is Dead is the band’s first number one, selling 94,000 its first week. It’s also a career-high for first week sales for the Decemberists. Of course the condition of the music industry is partially why this record — as well as so many of last year’s surprise number ones and ...
submitted by Nick Jan 19th 2011 01:00 pm (www.antimusic.com)
You can check out The Decemberists in a live video webcast today
If the increasingly prog bend the Decemberists material has taken makes that a surprising headline to you, forget the increasingly prog bend the Decemberists material has taken. Instead, consider the band as a lyrical folk outfit unafraid to shift and expand its instrumentation in pursuit of (occasionally mercilessly bloated, occasionally intere...


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