New Decemberists Song & Info 2009-02-17 by Mendigo | 8 Comments | Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won’t Wrestle the Thistles Undone), Track #2 of the upcoming album "The Hazards of Love" is streamed on The Decemberists' myspace site, as well as the album's 10th track The Rake Song which has been given away at the band's homepage as a free download.
http://www.myspace.com/thedecemberists
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Further information:
"The Hazards of Love is something of a folk opera that tells the tale of a woman named Margaret and a host of twisted characters played (sung) by Lavender Diamond's Becky Stark, My Brightest Diamond's Shara Worden, My Morning Jacket's Jim James, Robyn Hitchcock and the Spinanes' Rebecca Gates. The album combines a variety of genres from folk to heavy metal, which Colin Meloy explains in this way:
“There’s an odd bond between the music of the British folk revival and classic metal,” says Meloy. “A natural connection between, like, Fairport Convention and Black Sabbath – of course, Sandy Denny from Fairport even sang with Led Zeppelin on ‘The Battle of Evermore.’ I think there’s a shared sense of narrative and ambience, of moving beyond the first person in your writing. And I thought it would be interesting to mess around with that.” "
http://chewinggumfortheears.blogspot.com/2009/01/decemberists-offer-free-tune-from.html
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The album is going to be released on March 24 with the following tracklist:
1. Prelude
2. Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won’t Wrestle the Thistles Undone)
3. A Bower Scene
4. Won’t Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga)
5. Hazards of Love 2 (Wager All)
6. The Queen’s Approach
7. Isn’t it a Lovely Night?
8. The Wanting Comes in Waves / Repaid
9. An Interlude
10. The Rake’s Song
11. The Abduction of Margaret
12. The Queen’s Rebuke / The Crossing
13. Annan Water
14. Margaret in Captivity
15. Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge!)
16. The Wanting Comes in Waves (Reprise)
17. Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned)
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I only wanted to post the new song, but then I realised there hasn't been any news about the new album posted here at all.
can't fucking wait for this. if this isn't going to be even more epic than The Crane Wife...
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The album combines a variety of genres from folk to heavy metal
going to suck
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this will be interesting. probably wont match the greatness of The Crane Wife. their recent EPs were mediocre so ive been disappointed with them as of late
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The Decemberists heavy metal?
Who cares, I'm following them through anything, they're great
PS: Just read that sentence and I don't think you understood it, now it sounds good and exciting.This Message Edited On 02.17.09
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doesn't even matter, if someone uses the term 'heavy metal' to describe something, it's going to suck
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The whole concept of this reminds me a lot of the whole "Razia's Shadow" thing that Forgive Durden did. Hopefully it's better then that.
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I am hoping that this will be awesome.
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I actually liked the EP-songs, especially Record Year for Rainfall. but they didn't live up to The Crane Wife in a any way.
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