The Decemberists – The Crane Wife
Paste Magazine’s Albums of the Decade #22 As great as the Decemberists‘ 2005 Picaresque is, the band’s real creative breakthrough came a year earlier, on the 18-minute single The Tain, which integrated Colin Meloy’s hyper-literate whimsy into an ambitious yet tuneful song-suite. On the second track of The Decemberists’ new album, The Crane Wife, Meloy [...]
