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"Forum Moderator" Jedi |
Courtesy of Pitchfork.
I like the song alot. http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/MP3_Premiere_Th...rsong%E2%80%9D#38256 |
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Know-It-All |
Me, too. It's poppier than most of The Decemberists' songs. The accordian is a nice touch. I like the way Melloy uses his voice on this track, too; it's immediate and genuine. And the track isn't proggy at all, despite what I've heard about the upcoming album. |
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Know-It-All |
I also like it. I am really looking forward to this album.
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Jedi |
I like Summersong, but having heard the whole album, I don't think it was a good choice for a single. The rest of the album, is more intense, dark, loud.. there are a few epic sounding electric guitar tracks. Basically, Summersong doesn't sound like anything else on the album at all.
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Know-It-All |
Is the new album really like "The Tain"? What does it sound like? |
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Jedi |
Kind of. I'll do a short track by track thing because I'm bored and that's the only way I know how to explain it. "The Crane Wife 3"- This is a very well written, perfectly recorded, very catchy acoustic song. Perfect opener for this album. "The Island, Come and See, The Landlord's Daughter, You'll Not Feel the Drowning"- This is 13 minutes long. There's a lot of jamming, and the begining sounds like it could be the opening to a Phish song or something   . It's only pretty good when it could have been amazing."Yankee Bayonet(I will be home then)"- Another very catchy pop song. This sounds a lot like some of the stuff from Picaresque, but it's got really nice vocal harmonies. "O Valencia"- I hated this song at first, mostly because it doesn't sound like a decemberists song. But it really grew on me- i really like the chorus and the story in the lyrics. "The Perfect Crime #2"- I HATE this. I've forced myself to listen to it 3 whole times, but it is just total poop. This is the decemberists attempt at writing an 80's punk/funk/disco song. "When the War Came"- This also doesn't sound like anything they've done, but it's grown to be possibly my favorite song on the album. Loud drums and a chugging, fuzzy guitar lead into the chorus, which is EPIC. It makes me want to dance on a snowy mountain peak. "Shankill Butchers"- This is like "Of Angels and Angles" if the guitar were even quieter, the singing was louder, and the lyrics were about butchers going insane and chopping up little children who don't listen to their mothers. "Summersong"- You've already heard this one. "The Crane Wife 1 and 2"- Short, pleasant, upbeat acoustic song. And I'm still missing the last song! Overall, I like the album a lot. I just like Picaresque a little better. |
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Know-It-All |
Pitchforkmedia is falling over itself praising this and The Hold Steady's forthcoming albums. I'm very much looking forward to both.(n.1) _______________________________ (n.1) I've read elsewhere some criticism that The Crane Wife -- supposedly like Picaresque before it -- is too heavily compressed. As I understand it, this means that, in the engineering process, the quiet, subtle parts of the songs are made to be as loud as the loud parts of the songs, in an effort to make the album as loud as possible. I understand the concept of overcompression, and I can sort of hear it when I'm listening to a properly-compressed album, e.g., Talk Talk's "Laughing Stock." But it's hard for me to hear over-compression in an album when I'm listening to it. |
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Jedi |
I was predicting a low score for The Crane Wife from Pitchfork.
I think the compression thing is because they really want the loud songs to sound epic and theatrical. And they do. But is feels kind of weird on songs like "Shankill Butchers" where it's just really quiet acoustic guitar and vocals, and then on the chorus, his voice gets SUPER LOUD all of a sudden. Either way, I can't say that this album is a disappointment at all. |
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Know-It-All |
Pitchfork has already basically said that it will give "The Crane Wife" a sky-high rating (unless I misunderstood, which is possible). |
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"Forum Moderator" Jedi |
I read it the same way as you, Daniel. The specific quote:
"Continuing in the vein of 2004's The Tain EP, the Decemberists have crafted their fourth full-length, The Crane Wife, to be an enormous folk-prog monsterpiece. It's a beautiful thing, really, and between it and the Hold Steady album, October 3 cannot come fast enough." This does raise a legitimate question: is it fair to assign the review of the record to someone who either: 1. has bought into the pre-release hype 2. is predisposed to love the record even before listening to it 3. both of the above? I'm not assuming that one should be totally in the dark about the band, but P4K has been telegraphing the fact that the new Decemberists and Hold Steady are awesome. Maybe they've got advance copies (I think they mention having a copy-protected advance of the Hold Steady), in which case they can be speaking not from anticipation, but experience. But I read the comment on the Decemberists as "we're looking forward to hearing this because we're told it's going to sound like..." which seems to beg some critical questions about the record. |
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