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Photo by Nilina Mason-CampbellColin Meloy has always seemed more like the kind of guy who would use the word "rake" in a song title than an actual rake. And if you're unfamiliar, then the band Meloy leads-- Pacific Northwest folk-pop troupe the Decemberists-- would probably seem more likely to sing songs about stuff made out of metal (bagatelle balls, aluminum walls, samovars) than to do anything resembling the musical genre of metal, ever. What, you didn't at least read Nick Sylvester's review of The Tain EP?"The Rake's Song", from forthcoming rock opera The Hazards of Love, has the epic storytelling style of that EP and the Led Zep dinosaur-beat of a couple of tracks on 2006's The Crane Wife. Heavy sludge surrounds clanging acoustic-guitar chords, theatrical cries, and Meloy's confident voice, telling the story of a dissolute youth who gets married, has babies, and then becomes "your humble narrator." It's more Brave Little Tailor than Spinal Tap, but then, so am I.MP3:> The Decemberists: "The Rake's Song" (they'll ask you for your e-mail address)[from The Hazards of Love; due 03/24/09 on Capitol]
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Next week the Decemberists are set to release the follow up to last year’s The King Is Dead, and earlier this week we shared the first song from that forthcoming EP, Long Live The King. Since the songs on the new EP are from the same sessions that produced The King Is Dead, they exhibit [...]
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The Decemberists: – “Foregone”
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The Decemberists will soon follow up their big early-2011 hit album The King Is Dead with an EP called Long Live The King. The tracks on the EP come from the same sessions that produced The King Is Dead, so they’ve got a similarly rootsy sound, and you can hear that in the EP track [...]
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The Decemberists: Jenny Conlee's cancer in remission
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Band report keyboard player has overcome breast cancer
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The Decemberists: Releasing New EP
submitted by Nick Oct 4th 2011 12:00 pm (www.antimusic.com)
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The Decemberists have announced the November 1st release of the b-sides EP Long Live The King
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Death Cab for Cutie: Carson Daly Going Greek With The Decemberists, Death Cab for Cutie, Atmosphere and Thievery Corporation
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Carson Daly will be going Greek this week with The Decemberists, Death Cab for Cutie, Atmosphere and Thievery Corporation
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