{"id":4592,"date":"2012-02-03T17:55:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T00:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=4592"},"modified":"2012-02-03T17:55:57","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T00:55:57","slug":"the-decemberists-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/02\/the-decemberists-3\/","title":{"rendered":"THE DECEMBERISTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/THE-DECEMBERISTS-M-Review-November2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4683\" title=\"THE-DECEMBERISTS-M-Review-November2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/THE-DECEMBERISTS-M-Review-November2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/THE-DECEMBERISTS-M-Review-November2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/THE-DECEMBERISTS-M-Review-November2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>T<\/strong><strong>HE DECEMBERISTS<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Long Live the King<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Capitol]<\/p>\n<p>Even as they fail to hold together in one piece quite like this year\u2019s full-length <em>The King Is Dead<\/em>, most of the songs on this six-track EP strike a fine balance between frontman Colin Meloy\u2019s literary depth and some easily accessible tunes. The real keeper here is \u201cForegone,\u201d on which Meloy\u2019s love poetry is driven forward by a homey steel-guitar lick. Also on the simpler side are the Prince-ly named folk workout \u201cI4U &amp; U4Me\u201d and the concluding \u201cSonnet,\u201d with horns that threaten to burst into Cole Porter\u2019s \u201cAnything Goes.\u201d Still, two very different takes on death ensure that the record as a whole can\u2019t be categorized as warm and sweet. A cover of the Grateful Dead\u2019s \u201cRow Jimmy\u201d is an effective stab at solemn psychedelic rock, while the even creepier \u201cE. Watson\u201d finds Meloy in a familiar position, reciting a richly detailed story with no-frills acoustic accompaniment. \u2013David Styburski<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE DECEMBERISTS Long Live the King [Capitol] Even as they fail to hold together in one piece quite like this year\u2019s full-length The King Is Dead, most of the songs on this six-track EP strike a fine balance between frontman Colin Meloy\u2019s literary depth and some easily accessible tunes. The real keeper here is \u201cForegone,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,514,2961,2864,1332],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4592"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4685,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4592\/revisions\/4685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}