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The first two Decemberists albums are my favorites by some distance.
Enjoy, MH!
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Yeah, plenty of that. But lots of just great jangly, folky indie pop too. I just think the songcraft on those first two albums is fantastic -- if the voice and literary pretenses don't bother you, it's just one immaculately written tune after another. Later albums where they get proggier and start incorporating more generic alternative rock elements are more uneven for me, but the best of that stuff is really good too.
They're definitely one of those bands where I listen back to them now and think, "Wow, this really sounds like the early 2000's."
well, the new single is incredibly proggy (at like 20 minutes) so maybe I'll like that stuff
Don't get me wrong, I don't dislike that stuff on principle at all -- there are a lot of great extended pieces on their subsequent records ("The Tain," "The Island," parts of the Hazards of Love album -- they really lean into that overblown theatrical stuff and if you can surrender to it, it's pretty great). A lot of fans think The Crane Wife is their best album, which has a lot of prog/alt-rock elements to it.
I haven't checked out the new single yet -- I didn't really care for their last album, or the lead single from this one, and haven't really been in the headspace for a 20-minute Colin Meloy epic, but I will get around to it eventually for sure.
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