by Daniel Erenberg
We all knew that The Decemberists would eventually write a concept album. After all, they’ve always been storytellers just as much as they’ve been songwriters, sometimes to an extremely frustrating degree. Their last record, and major label debut, The Crane Wife, came very close to being classified as such, by packing in the three-part title track, as well as the five-section prog-rock epic, “The Island,” but, essentially, it was a song album, with a couple of experiments thrown in. Their new album, The Hazards Of Love, takes this experimentation to the next logical place.
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April 1, 2009 at 4:37pm
