![]() While Picaresque follows its predecessor's - the treacly Her Majesty - predilection for seafaring and mythology, its boot-covered feet are more firmly planted in the present, resulting in the group's most accessible - and decidedly upbeat - product to date. "The Infanta," the thunderous opening track on the Decemberists' fluid and predictably studious Picaresque, rolls in like a ghost ship at 40 knots in a hail of cannon fire with a mad English professor at the wheel.Ĭolin Meloy and his esteemed West Coast colleagues have no qualms about beginning their third full-length record with a processional about a child monarch, and it's a testimony to their talents as orators and interpreters of both the absurd and the mundane that they continue to assimilate more fans than they alienate.
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