Ready: go!, And this is the first great album of 2011.
Abandon the progressive aspirations and the search for new and more 'complex sounds that had characterized the even better The Hazards Of Love (2009), the Decemberists - A curiosity: their code is not, as was expected, since December, but on behalf of the Russian revolutionaries who in 1925 rebelled against the Tsar - rediscovering the roots and love for tradition.
A sort of Bringing It All Back Home, in fact.
To this end, in the quiet rural retreat of a barn at the foot of Mount Hood, near Portland them - the same Portland who recently has propelled bands like Menomena, Thou fawning and Phoenix - and give birth to The King Is Dead (Smiths tribute), an album of classic folk-rock, seemingly simple, but great immediacy and emotional impact.
It starts with the great Do Carry It All, then Calamity Song is the first explicit admission of adoration for the jingle-jangle of the Byrds and early REM (apparently out of Murmur or Reckoning, Peter Buck, and in fact works in three pieces) and Rise To Me a languid ballad style in Nashville (Gram Parsons).
With a casual copying and pasting, Rox In The Box in the middle once again air in style Irish Heartbeat, and the following January and June Hymn Hymn stand on delicate guitar arpeggios Gibson.
E 'a profusion of mandolins, harmonicas and FISE, including Young, Dylan and Springsteen: Take the introduction of powerful (and beautiful) Single Down By The Water, can hear The Promised Land.
All Arise! instead almost a cover of Creedence, and before concluding, wistful Dear Avery (Red House Painters), there is still time for a perfect pop song as This Is Why We Fight.
will run for a long time on our Ipod.
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