THE DECEMBERISTS - AS IT EVER WAS, SO IT WILL BE AGAIN 2X FRUIT PUNCH VINYL LP
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Title: THE DECEMBERISTS - AS IT EVER WAS, SO IT WILL BE AGAIN 2X FRUIT PUNCH VINYL LP Indies Exclusive 2x Fruit Punch Vinyl LP Catalogue Number: YABB004EXC Barcode: 691835878539 Record Grading: Mint (M) Sleeve Grading: Mint (M) Condition Note: Brand New
Track Listing / Description A1 Burial Ground A2 Oh No! A3 The Reapers Long White Veil B1 William Fitzwilliam B2 Don't Go to the Woods B3 The Black Maria B4 All I Want Is You C1 Born to the Morning C2 America Made Me C3 Tell Me What's on Your Mind C4 Never Satisfied D1 Joan in the Garden For over 20 years, The Decemberists have been one of the most original, daring, and thrilling American rock bands. Their distinctive brand of hyperliterate folk-rock set them apart from the start, releasing nine full-length albums that are unbound by genre and highly ambitious. Now the beloved indie band is back with their first new album in six years, As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again - not only the longest Decemberists album to date (and their first intentional, proper double-LP) but also their most empathetic and accessible, its 13 songs like semaphores of mutual recognition for our fraught times and faint hope. The first dozen songs are punchy, pithy gems all, reflections on mortality and loneliness, longing and cynicism, expectation and unease. The band animates them brilliantly, pushing out and pulling in at the perfect moments. John Moen practically dances beneath the jangle of opener "Burial Ground," breathing the life into this song about spiraling toward the end. From the irrepressible "Oh No!" and guileless tenderness and absolute surrender of "All I Want Is You," to the romantic ghost story that shimmers behind pedal steel in spite of the specter in "Long White Veil," these 12 songs alone would constitute a dazzling Decemberists album, rich with woe and love, anxiety and honesty. But a keening little choir and arid electric guitar invoke "Joan in the Garden," the band's first full-on prog escapade since The Crane Wife. Though rooted in doubt, much like the album it ends, "Joan in the Garden" ultimately lands as a celebration of music's ability to convey valence and ambiguity, to frame an endlessly complicated story in instantly compelling terms. This, songwriter Colin Meloy will tell you proudly, is the best Decemberists albums and perhaps the ultimate realization of 22 years of work. In many ways, As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again feels like an aptly titled renewal for The Decemberists. The first full-length release on YABB Records, the band's own label, after a run of nearly two decades with Capitol. As they were once, here are the Decemberists again, now an independent band empowered by singing stories that sound instantly familiar and convey some bit of hard-won wisdom.price rating
