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Release Date Friday 7th June 2024
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day
Tracks: Shanty for the Arethusa / Billy Liar / Los Angeles, I'm Yours / The
Gymnast, High Above the Ground / The Bachelor and the Bride / Song for Myla
Goldberg / The Soldiering Life / Red Right Ankle / The Chimbley Sweep / I Was
Meant for the Stage / As I Rise
. ." could best be described as the charming older brother to the band's previous
outing. And, while being recognizably related to its sibling predecessor, it is an
altogether different beast. Present and accounted for are the Victorian literary
tropes, the rakish mariners, and the Dickensian downtrodden that slouched their
way across the lazer imprinted surface of "Castaways and Cutouts"; in "Her
Majesty the Decemberists," a new cast of characters is introduced as well, giving
further depth to the richly bizarre songcraft of the band's bespectacled leading
player, Colin Meloy: an aristocratic Jewess, slumming it blindfolded among the
exotic avenues of a Chinese bazaar, the coifed and coked- up bon vivants of
greater Los Angeles, the writer Myla Goldberg, and a pair of affectionate soldiers,
celebrating their comradery among the mortar blasts and trench mud of World
War I Belgium. Musically, the band travels
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