I've been listening this morning to the new Decemberists album and it's quite simply blown me away. Over the last couple of albums they've gone a transformation musically and have done away with the extended story-telling ballads in favour of the shorter 3 to 6 minute tunes and it's divided opinion amongst their fans. They even acknowledge this in the first track on the new album where they explain that they had to change even if the fans didn't want them to.
I like the new Decemberists a lot. They continue to be very geeky, very folky but there's still a rock edge when they want to and they can still do love songs like nobody's business. This song is a case in point.
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