The Decemberists - As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again Indies Exclusive 2x Fruit Punch Vinyl LP
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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.