Stream New Decemberists

I'm hearing a little Genesis and ELP. Love it so far!

Posted by: Hologram at 09/27/06 11:34 AM  | Reply
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uh...is this 'screw macs' day? I can't get it to work on safari or firefox. or is mtv just unable to make their website work properly again?

Posted by: Niles at 09/27/06 12:07 PM  | Reply
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Loved it immediately.

Posted by: Jim at 09/27/06 12:24 PM  | Reply
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Wouldn't say a grower. It's solid, (except for the train wrecks "Perfect Crime" and "When the War Came"), but Picaresque is a goddamn hard album to follow up.

Posted by: Dane at 09/27/06 12:34 PM  | Reply
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Train wrecks?!? Not on my watch!

Posted by: The Engine Driver at 09/27/06 12:39 PM  | Reply
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Not as good as the last two, but still pretty great. Oddly, they don't miss a beat when it comes to the stuff that breaks from their old style, but this makes some of the more ordinary Decemberists' fare ("Shankill Butchers," "Summersong") suffer a tiny bit by comparison.

They're fine, but they sound like songs that Meloy can write in his sleep, so they don't register like the "Crane Wife" (all parts), "the Island," or the immediately accessible "Valencia" and "Yankee Bayonet," which would sound just as at home on any Decemberists disc as "Butchers" and "Summersong," but are too catchy to ignore in any context.

Posted by: d at 09/27/06 12:42 PM  | Reply
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Far better than Picaresque. It's the first Decemberist album I can listen to without getting annoyed or bored.

Posted by: jerry yeti at 09/27/06 1:58 PM  | Reply
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I think this album is amazing! And The Perfect Crime a train wreck?!? WTF that song is one of the jams of the years. It's such a Talking Heads influenced songs how can you not love it?

Posted by: Colin at 09/28/06 2:16 AM  | Reply
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