The Decemberists – The King Is Dead
By Craig Smith • Feb 10th, 2011 • Category: Album ReviewsThe Decemberists discard the costumes and dispense with the theatre slipping into more familiar musical threads on album number 6.
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The Decemberists – The Hazards Of Love
By Craig Smith • Mar 30th, 2009 • Category: Album ReviewsAll aboard the good ship The Decemberists as Colin Meloy steers literate rock through uncharted waters with this 17 part rock opera.
The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love
By Craig Smith • Jan 23rd, 2009 • Category: NewsLit-rock pansies The Decemberists release The Hazards Of Love, their follow-up to 2006′s omni-directional The Crane Wife which saw the band reach new heights of smugness, shifting in excess of 300,000 copies in the States alone. With their fifth full-length album due for release in the UK through Rough Trade on March 23rd, the Portland-based quintet of [...]
Colin Meloy – Colin Meloy Sings Live!
By Craig Smith • Apr 9th, 2008 • Category: ReviewsRough Trade, 2008 Colin Meloy. You either love him or you hate him. At times I’ve found myself wanting to do both. He’s the perennial literate geek come celebrated indie star. He’s charming and ruggedly handsome, self-assured and intelligent, with a Morrissey fetish that is second to none. When he speaks in that rich and [...]
