new decemberists album!!!

[spiritualfishwasher]

is amazing!!

anyone else?

[clouds-chan]

not really caring :(

[secularchumscrubber]

i LOVE boasting about stealing shite quality pre-releases on messageboards.

fuck off until october third, you twat. the album isn't even that great, anyway.

[patman?]

People like the Decemberists still? Why?

[The_old_shitty_Kirk]

Call it a morbid fascination.

[josaphax]

shite? not that i dont agree but who talks like that?

[pierrecoghill]

snore core album of the year, maybe decade....

[josaphax]

kirk, you arent looking so good these days..

[Coquelicot]

Yet another thread that proves that people on this board are way more into criticizing stuff than saying anything nice. Just peruse any discussion having to do with non-E6 bands (but also plenty of E6 ones) if you don't believe me. Blah blah blah this sucks that sucks everything sucks.

Oh yeah, The Decemberists. I was into them for a few weeks earlier in the summer, but it didn't hold for some reason. Good band though, and I know plenty of people who like them. I'll probably pick up the new album on Napster because free stuff rules.

[jlaird]

i want to hear this album , but cant find it on oink or indeitorrents or anything
:(

[auxiliaryoctopus]

I like the Decemberists. I'm looking forward to this album.

[Gokk]

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[okinomiyaki-sensei]

I liked bits of Picaresque but the earlier albums with the longer songs on them were kinda boring, I thought. But what I liked off of Picaresque I liked mostly because it sounded like the other bands I liked a lot more... you know, like Neutral Milk Hotel... and I also kind of realized I like REM a bit when I heard them.

I guess there's nothing really wrong with that because there's probably not going to be another Neutral Milk Hotel album, but it also kind of makes me think they're like what Coldplay was to Radiohead... kind of dwelling on those bits of other albums that people really liked, as if the original bands are too busy being creative to realize that they had a good thing going.

[jlaird]

Thanks for the link

[Gokk]

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[kuranes]

So, a lurker shows his face when one of his favorite bands is being discussed, and I was going to jump in here and say that it doesn't matter if they're on Capitol or what-not as long as they're writing creative, interesting, entertaining songs and music.

But I just downloaded it here, and I'm not feeling it. There's really been very few Decemberists songs that I have disliked (the overlong, repetitive Bagman's Gambit comes to mind), but this record doesn't seem to hold my interest. Maybe it will grow on me, but my first impression is that this is a much more controlled, less engaging record. It doesn't sound like the record that should follow the exciting Picaresque, the creative Her Majesty, or the melodic Castaways.

[nahadaran]

i have to disagree. i just sat down and listened to it on headphones and have to say that i was really really impressed. i never imagined the decemberists writing an album like this. it rocks hard and heavy. the island especially stood out. but i like my prog.

[cpanighetti]

i love it. everyone who hates it is wrong. their opinions are wrong

[clouds-chan]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v356/balloontown/angry-dean.jpg

[patman?]

The only thing good about Picaresque was "The Mariner's Revenge Song," which was twenty-five tons of badass. I would imagine that the long songs are the only thing I enjoy in this, too.

[kuranes]

Alright, I've made myself listen through the whole album without jumping around to find stuff I like.

It's not a bad album overall and out of context from their old work. It's easily their weakest though, and clearly suffers from overproduction. The sophisitication of the songwriting is dumbed down about two notches. I like the track "When the War Came" but in it he says "When the war came, the war came hard". I cringed, he would never previously express something so hamfistedly. "hamfistedly"... speaking of new words, I didn't learn a single one on this record.

There are some musical choices they (band? studio?) make that are very questionable. The ringing distorted chords at the end of Crane Wife 3 are right out of some goofy arena rock song, and while that is a good track, it ends it with a "why did you just do that?" moment. The weird vocal distortion at a few points in a few tracks is tough.

The two songs after The Island are so straightforward they just sound like throwaways that they had to put together for the major label. And "Perfect Crime 2" is like a bad Police song or something, I couldn't get through that one track. The Island is the least musically intricate prog song ever written (maybe for the better?).

The album has its moments, but if I'm going to put in one of their CDs this one is at the bottom of the list, including the B-sides collection I put together. Maybe I'll cut out the Crane Wife suite and keep that one, because its the strongest part of the record. (as an aside - why didn't they put a track break in it? the song stops for two seconds and then the second movement, the part two starts up. There's no segue.)

[cpanighetti]

sons and daughters is probably my favorite track at this point. it will be fun to see it live.

[furious-chan]

AHHHHHH I HATE THE DECEMBERISTSS

[clouds-chan]

hey... my album has a song called sons and daughters on it!

[Little DiSH Z]

Who recorded and/or produced this album?

[Gokk]

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[Little DiSH Z]

Originally posted by Gokk
walla walla walla walla walla walla hey

Ah. That's what I thought.

It makes perfect sense that this album is over-produced as shit, then.

I've really disliked basically everything that guy has done since "The Photo Album."

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[architectualist]

Why so aggressive? I think The Decemberists have made some pretty good music. Granted, there are a few songs that make you wonder why they were ever conceived to begin with, but I still think they are overall a fine band.

[clouds-chan]

who produced the album, now?

[Little DiSH Z]

Originally posted by clouds-chan
who produced the album, now?

Chris Walla of Death Cab For Cutie fame.

[Gokk]

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[Gokk]

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[cpanighetti]

Originally posted by Gokk
sweet! if you swear consecutively, every other curse word is uncensored.

that is awesome

fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

haha

[architectualist]

Fuck me? If you must.

[Gokk]

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[Wild-Beards]

LOL! I love non-serious swearing, and getting around censors. Perfect first thread to see.

fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck yeah!

[architectualist]

Who said I was serious? I meant it to seem in good spirits, a little light-hearted bantering, guess it just didn't come off that way.

[clouds-chan]

what a bizarre loophole those filters have.

[belefonte]

can somebody put this back on yousendit?

i need to proove to a friend that they are a terrible band.

[belefonte]

can somebody put this back on yousendit?

i need to proove to a friend that they are a terrible band.

[Figglyduff]

Everyone is saying its really bad, which is a shame as I liked Picaresque, but is the version available to download the same as the one that will be released? It might be that there is still work to be done on it. Hopefully.

[uncle eggma]

chris walla has ruined several decent bands albums by over producing them...if you need more proof check out the thermal's 2nd album...total crud.

[Pål]

I heard a song on my local college radio the other day, and I decided that I still don't like them.

[Gokk]

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