The Hazards of Love by The Decomberists : CD released on Mar.24, 09

The Decemberists' The dangers of love, the follow-up of the group for 2006 breakthrough, The Crane Wife, which NPR listeners voted their favorite album of the year. With their fifth full-length album, the Portland-based quintet of Colin Meloy, Chris Funk, Jenny Conlee, Nate Query John Moen and solidifies its status as one of the most innovative creative forces in music today.

At a time when singles line and the death of the album is marked by many, The Decemberists have fashioned an anomaly: a record that demands to be listened to from start to finish and reveals more with each subsequent play. The 17-song suite, with the band of the old producer Tucker Martine, who is rooted in the ancient language and images, yet completely modern and accessible.

The album starts when Meloy - long fascinated by the British folk revival of the 1960s - was a copy of Anne Briggs honored vocalist's 1966 EP, entitled The dangers of love. Because there is no issue with the album title, that he write a. Soon he was immersed in something much bigger than just a new composition.

The hazards of Love tells the story of a woman named Margaret who is plagued by a shape-shifting animals, her lover, William, a royal forest, and a cold-blooded, lusty rake, which describes with spine-tingling ease how he came to home as easy and free. " Lavender Diamond's Becky Stark and My Brightest Diamond's Shara Will provide the lead vocals for the female characters, while My Morning Jacket's Jim James, Robyn Hitchcock and the Spinanes' Rebecca Gates, in supporting roles. The range of sounds reflects the characters' arcs, the accordion the singsong tune in "Is not it a Lovely Night?" heavy metals Thursday of "The Queen's reprimand / The Crossing."

Songs Titles :
1. Prelude 3:04 minutes
2. The Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle the Thistles Undone) 4:18 minutes
3. A Bower Scene 2:08 minutes
4. Won't Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga) 4:06 minutes
5. The Hazards of Love 2 (Wager All) 4:25 minutes
6. The Queen's Approach 0:29 minutes
7. Isn't It A Lovely Night? 3:38 minutes
8. The Wanting Comes in Waves / Repaid 6:26 minutes
9. An Interlude 1:40 minutes
10. The Rake's Song 3:15 minutes
11. The Abduction of Margaret 2:06 minutes
12. The Queen's Rebuke / The Crossing 3:56 minutes
13. Annan Water 5:11 minutes
14. Margaret in Captivity 3:07 minutes
15. The Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge!) 3:21 minutes
16. The Wanting Comes in Waves (Reprise) 1:30 minutes
17. The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned) 5:57 minutes

This CD album will be released on March 24, 2009
Listen to samples of this new album