“For all my talk about how complex those records were, this one may have been harder to do. It’s a real challenge to make simple music, and lot of times we had to deliberately hold off and keep more space. This record is an exercise in restraint.”I am amazingly excited for this to arrive on my doorstep come Tuesday, but also a bit worried. I love the Decemberists, and their last offering 'The Hazards Of Love' hit me like a freight train. In a completely fantastic way. Though it's Colin's intention for this to be much sweeter and simpler, following the release of Down by the Water, and the above statement, I can't help but feel like it's going to take me a lot longer to fall in love with this record.
“Over the last eleven years or so, since I moved to Portland, I feel like I’ve been mining mostly English traditions for influence. I guess I’ve kind of come back to a lot of the more American music that got me going in the first place – R.E.M. and Camper Van Beethoven and all these bands that borrowed from more American traditions like Neil Young and the Byrds.”
“Sometimes I kind of miss the epic-ness of the other albums, but it’s nice to get all of the information across in three minutes. It’s like going from reading a novel to reading a bunch of short stories.” - Colin Meloy
Some oldies, but goodies:
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