“Click to listen to The Decemberists’ "Down By the Water" When a 12-and-a-half-minute murder ballad ("The Island," from 2006’s The Crane Wife) stands as one of your more concise career high points, it’s probably time to consider reining things in. That’s just what the Decemberists — the Portland, Oregon, band known for its complex story-songs […]”
“Colin Meloy and co. return with a stripped-down, country-tinged meditation on loss and nature”
“Colin Meloy and co. follow their proggy rock opera The Hazards of Love with a breezy country-folk record. Peter Buck and Gillian Welch guest.”
