The Decemberists - Picaresque
The music is fantastic. Very full, rich and moves you just the way they want you to be moved. The voice is sweet, even if it is kind of nasal, but it works perfectly with the style. The one thing that makes this album one of the best albums of the year is the lyrics.
They have a song called "The Mariner's Revenge" and it's actually about a mariner who goes out to find the man that gave his mother consumption, and
"Find him, bind him
Tie him to a pole and break
His fingers to splinters
Drag him to a hole until he
Wakes up naked
Clawing at the ceiling
Of his grave
*sigh*"
And they have sweet romantic songs too, (
There are angels in your your angles. There's a low moon caught in your tangles. Of Angels and Angles) a song about amature baseball, about living as kings of the homeless, about military wives...
So good...
