LP - Indies Exclusive Limited Edition Peach Vinyl with 10" x 57" Poster of full cover landscape. Includes download card.
The Decemberists' second full-length contains all of the elements that made their debut so highly acclaimed, but this time out Colin Meloy and company have presented us with an entirely darker affair. Her Majesty is still filled with lush instrumentation and Colin's witty storytelling lyrics, but most of the songs are slower and longer.
For all intents and purposes, "Her Majesty. . ." could best be described as the charming older brother to the band's previous outing. And, while being recognizably related to its sibling predecessor, it is an altogether different beast. Present and accounted for are the Victorian literary tropes, the rakish mariners, and the Dickensian downtrodden that slouched their way across the lazer imprinted surface of "Castaways and Cutouts"; in "Her Majesty the Decemberists," a new cast of characters is introduced as well, giving further depth to the richly bizarre songcraft of the band's bespectacled leading player, Colin Meloy: an aristocratic Jewess, slumming it blindfolded among the exotic avenues of a Chinese bazaar, the coifed and coked-up bon vivants of greater Los Angeles, the writer Myla Goldberg, and a pair of affectionate soldiers, celebrating their comradery among the mortar blasts and trench mud of World War I Belgium. Musically, the band travels.
LP Comes with 10"x57" poster of full cover landscape [w/ download card].
Tracklist:
A1. Shanty For The Arethusa
A2. Billy Liar
A3. Los Angeles, I'm Yours
A4. The Gymnast, High Above The Ground
A5. The Bachelor And The Bride
B1. Song For Myla Goldberg
B2. The Soldiering Life
B3. Red Right Ankle
B4. The Chimbley Sweep
B5. I Was Meant For The Stage
B6. As I Rise