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Description The Decemberists - What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World [2015][EAC/FLAC]  » FLAC / Lossless / Log (100%) / Cue Label/Cat#: Rough Trade #RTRADCD 756 Country: USA Year: August 12, 2014 Genre: Americana,folk Format: CD  1. The Singer Addresses His Audience (4:42) 2. Cavalry Captain (3:17) 3. Philomena (3:04) 4. Make You Better (5:07) 5. Lake Song (5:52) 6. Till the Water’s All Long Gone (5:01) 7. The Wrong Year (3:53) 8. Carolina Low (3:24) 9. Better Not Wake the Baby (1:44) 10. Anti-Summersong (2:12) 11. Easy Come, Easy Go (2:22) 12. Mistral (3:54) 13. 12/17/12 (3:03) 14. A Beginning Song (5:22) They are back after four long years. Cue the montage: Colin Meloy has been hard at work on his whimsical children’s book series, The Wildwood Chronicles, and the band’s other four founding members have been recording and touring with Portland bluegrass group Black Prairie. But after realizing that there was simply no one else to fill their hobnailed boots or effectively employ an accordion in a rock song, they combined their powers once again. The result is What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World, their seventh studio album. How high are the expectations this time around? While 2011’s The King Is Dead and 2009’s The Hazards of Love each had their own merits, they weren’t really anyone’s favorite works by The Decemberists, a fanciful band that seemed to hit its stride in the mid-aughts. Both of these albums went in completely new directions; one was an epic prog rock opera, the other a more straightforward take on folksy Americana. What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World doesn’t build on either of those sounds; rather, it’s a chimera-like hybrid, returning to classic Decemberists form while offering something entirely new: a gentler, simpler version of the band than we’ve ever heard before. There are undoubtedly some critics, and even longtime fans, who will be skeptical of the whole shebang. Lead singles “The Wrong Year” and “Make You Better” are the most accessible, radio-friendly pop tunes that the band has ever recorded — if you need any further proof, I can attest to hearing the latter in a Starbucks last week. (Can you imagine anyone playing “A Cautionary Tale”, from 2002’s Castaways and Cutouts, over the loudspeaker in a corporate coffee chain?) “But we’re not so starry-eyed anymore,” Meloy sings over lush major key piano chords and nice, orderly guitar notes. For those familiar with Decemberists tunes, the sentiment of becoming disillusioned with the blush of first love but continuing to love the other person anyway is, at first, perplexingly simple. Meloy isn’t calling your mother a whore in a roundabout way this time; he’s just reflecting on being married and having a couple of kids.  Related Torrents
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