I wasn't kidding!

I haven't even gotten my new layout yet!

Yesterday, mysteriously, The Crane Wife came to me. It's the new CD from the Decemberists, back with their offbeat folk fables and dark bedtime stories. "Cormorant" means pelican, I'm pretty sure. Break out the thesaurus just in case.

So that's what I've been doing since yesterday. So far I've given it my standard reaction of late, which is: "Pretty okay!" Unlike the last album, there wasn't a song on it that I didn't like. I can't even say that about Castaways and Cutouts, which is my favorite. Unfortunately, there wasn't any song that jumped out at me as completely awesome, either. Then again, it often takes me a while to warm up to new things. There are lots of songs and albums that I was cold towards when I first heard them, that I now love. So I'll have to see what happens here.

It's a lot more "rock" than their previous efforts. And some of the songs feel like I've already listened to them. "When The War Came" is pretty much "No Quarter." I know I tend to think a lot of things sound like Zeppelin, or that olde timey rock I likw, because that's what I know best. But it really does this time, I mean it. Ordinarily, that's not something I would go for. But it's the Decemberists. So I love it. The first part of second song, called "Come And See" is very much like some Pink Floyd song. I'm not too good with Floyd. I want to say "Young Lust" but I'm pretty sure that's wrong. Then they take over the sound effects of T-Rex's "The Slider" to simulate sloshing through water. Then they get into something that sounds like, I swear, Bon Jovi's "Blaze Of Glory" before finally becoming its own song.

I definitely recommend. Even if you don't already listen to the Decemberists. Kirk.


Incidentally, I've noticed that my monkey comments have stopped working. Oh no!! What tragic timing. But doesn't it just make you want to read all the more while wishing you could comment? No? Oh well. I tried.