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The Decemberists: Long Live The King Cd review
By: Jaymin Proulx
Rated: 3/5 stars
The Decemberists’ newest release is the third single/EP for the Portland, Oregon natives. Sticking to their folksy, story-telling approach, the album is slightly less than 30 minutes.
Consisting of singer and songwriter Colin Meloy, other band mates include Chris Funk (guitar), Jenny Conlee (Hammond organ, accordion, piano, keyboards, harmonica), Nate Query (bass guitar, string bass) and John Moen (drums).
For only releasing an earlier album (The King is Dead) about a year and half ago, Long Live The King, meets mediocre standards of easy-going, friendly and bluesy rock. The album title rings similarly to their tendency to talk folklore and mythology: not that that’s a bad thing, but this one doesn’t sing loudly or with much differentiation throughout the entire set.
On a side note, Conlee fought breast cancer during 2011 and thankfully recovered.
By beginning the album with “E.Watson” the band gets by with what feels comfortable and easy. But although Meloy is a strong lyricist, the rest of the album falls flat and doesn’t deliver exciting promise.
With the fourth song, “14U & U 4 Me”, welcomes a jolt of soul and forays into a happier place:
“You're all made a tattered heel
And you're the only constant all my life.
We could go together some
And we could get each other through the night.
We are one and we are two
And we are simply wicked to a T.
Never a better thing were said
Than I for you and you were made for me
Fortunately, by the fifth song, “Row Jimmy,” the Decemberists pick up pace and merrily deliver. “Sonnet”, the sixth song is finishes the set, but it’s disappointing that it takes twenty minutes to get there.
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