The next song title in a collection of very Decemberisty track titles to come from the Portland outfit’s forthcoming The Hazards Of Love is “Won’t Want For Love (Margaret In The Taiga).” It’s a distinct shift from the tanpura-and-strums of “The Hazards Of Love (The Prettiest Whistles Won’t Wrestle The Thistles Undone)” and the balls of “The Rake’s Song,” unfolding as a funky, occasionally ’70s-psychedelic folk rocker. It’s a song sung from the perspective of Margaret, played here by Lavender Diamond’s Becky Stark, who got herself knocked up by William (one Colin Meloy). As the album unfolds, their love is contested by a “jealous forest queen” voiced by My Brightest Diamond’s Shara Worden. In other words, Colin Meloy is thesaurus-rock’s Woody Allen.
The Hazards Of Love is out 3/24 via Capitol.
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^ – what’s a “torrent”?
maybe they’ll come out with an accompanying movie to their rock opera that makes you say “what. the. fuck?” the whole way through.
*cough TOMMY *cough
I think a Lavender Diamond Progress Report is in order.
new album being recorded as we speak
If anyone is looking for a drinking game for this weekend, play this album and take a shot every time someone sings, “my own true love.”
what’s up with the new pitchfork? why aren’t they update their reviews?
You have to click on the Reviews tab. All the content plus more is still there, it just looks like they are having trouble updating the front page with their new set up. No, I don’t work for them. I just figured that out yesterday.
for a second i thought this douchebag was holding up his horeshit cd.
I am absolutely in love with with track!
There’s a few more new tracks from the album here:
http://robotjones.com/?p=498
I know The Crane Wife wasn’t for everyone but I really loved it, and I can’t wait to hear this one in its entirety. And dfsdf, red down arrow for you.
Nice Robot. Didn’t even know Shara Worden was doing vocals for this album. Sounds great.
The whole album is pretty decent. I don’t like the songs with the Brightest Diamond girl on them but there’s some great songs on it. It’s a really weird concept album though…and that weirdness kinda detracts from it’s quality. It’s definitely not as good as Crane Wife or Picaresque.
I definitely disagree. Shara Worden does a fantastic job as the Forest Queen, and the heavy parts, while not as good as the folky parts, are really enjoyable. I love the story, which isn’t any weirder than a majority of concept albums. It’s really a rather standard folktale. Overall I’d put this album up there with Crane Wife.
Hmmm… I have a copy of this album already and I have to say that I am not all that impressed. I feel as if things really started to go downhill after “Her Majesty The Decemberists”. “Picaresque” was just ok. But I feel as if Meloy and company have sacrificed lyrical wit and originality for overblown production budgets and cookie cutter guitar riffs. I keep listening because I believe in them as a band but have been thoroughly disappointed with their music for the last couple years. Sorry. To each their own.
way to rape Rape Massive Attacks “Teardrop” acapella/rhythm slash style, just what, “Should Sue…No Do Sue”…give em hekk kid.
Good call on the massive attack mimic. I was listening to this a lot last week and it took me a while to figure out why it sounded so familiar. I still like it nonetheless, but definittelllly teardrop-esque. Maybe they were watching a lot of House
EXACTLY!!!!!!!
Wow – this is some serious 1970’s prog rock… Love Becky’s vocals here but really, she can write songs that are WAY better than this claptrap
i love this band. i love everything they have ever done.
you will understand when you hear it, when i say: this record is terrible.
it’s overwrought and abysmal and just suffocatingly bad.
you don’t care about the “characters” you waste an hour with.
you don’t care about the different singers or blah blah.
all you hear are corny guitar riffs, extended jams, and bullshit.
colin meloy, i have a BA in english lit. from a well-respected northeastern state school (if one exists, rite??), and i have to say, you are giving us a bad name when you make records as shitty as this. please understand, i mean this with all due respect, but take a step back and realize what kind of colossal douche you have become. you have lost your rhythm, boy.
now commence the down arrow, n00bs.
After viewing your twitter page, Chris, I can only say that I hope to God you’re not an English major.
“i have a BA in english lit”, but you don’t believe in capitalization and you write things like “now commence the down arrow, n00bs.”
AND
You say that Colin Meloy is giving you a bad name.
I just find that funny… extremely funny.
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