The Decemberists - The King Is Dead
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Album Review
Release date: 18 January 2011
Album Review: The Decemberists - The King Is Dead (Rough Trade)
Turgid Americana pastiche
Even when Oregon’s The Decemberists debuted with ‘Castaways And Cutouts’ in 2002, they were still more Neutral Milk Bail Hostel than Hotel. They transposed wordy Victorian melodrama onto folky sea shanties. But at least once they had a snappy poetic sensibility and an admirable interest in history. Unfortunately, now they are pure turgid Americana pastiche. ‘This Is Why We Fight’...
- Jan 24, 2011
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The Decemberists - The King Is Dead Lyrics
The Decemberists - Don't Carry It All Lyrics
Here we come to a turning of the season
Witness to the arc towards the sun
A neighbor's blessed burden within reason
Becomes a burden borne of all and one
The Decemberists - Calamity Song Lyrics
Had a dream, you and me and the war of the end times
And I believe California succumbed to the fault line
We heaved relief as scores of innocents died
The Decemberists - Rise To Me Lyrics
Big mountain, wide river
There's an ancient pull
These tree trunks, these stream beds
Leave our bellies full
The Decemberists - Rox In the Box Lyrics
Get the rox in the box, get the water right down to your socks
This bulkhead's built of fallen brethren bones
We all do what we can, we endure our fellow man
And we sing our songs to the head frames creaks and moans
The Decemberists - January Hymn Lyrics
On a winter's Sunday I go
To clear away the snow and green the ground below
April, all an ocean away, is this the better way to spend the day?
Keeping the winter at bay
The Decemberists - Down By The Water Lyrics
See this ancient riverbed, see where all my folly's led
Down by the water and down by the old main drag
I was just some tow-head teen, feeling 'round for fingers to get in between
Down by the water and down by the old main drag
The Decemberists - All Arise! Lyrics
Baby wants a new spin, baby wants a broken heart
Hear you found the lynch-pin to keep it all from falling apart
But you keep on rolling, you keep on rolling
The Decemberists - June Hymn Lyrics
Here's a hymn to welcome in the day
Heralding a summer's early sway
And all the bulbs all coming in to begin
The thrushes bleating battle with the wrens
The Decemberists - This Is Why We Fight Lyrics
Come the war, come the avarice
Come the war, come hell
Come attrition, come the reek of bones
Come attrition, come hell
The Decemberists - Dear Avery Lyrics
Dear Avery, I think of you only
Were you waving, were you dead on the vine?
Oh Avery, to think of you lonely
I could just grab you by the nape of your neck
