The Decemberists – Her Majesty The Decemberists (LP Vinyl)
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Colin Meloy arrived from Portland with a battered paperback sensibility and a gift for spinning merchant sailors and forgotten social outcasts into folk-pop songs that felt lifted from a water-damaged 19th century novel. Her Majesty, originally released on Kill Rock Stars in 2003, captured the Decemberists at their most intimate and literary, before bigger stages and orchestral ambitions came calling.
Vinyl LP pressing. For all intents and purposes, 2003's Her Majesty could best be described as the charming older brother to previous outing Castaways and Cutouts (2002). And, while being recognizably related to it's predecessor, it's 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 laser imprinted surface of Castaways; in Her Majesty a new cast of characters is introduced as well, giving further depth to the richly bizarre songcraft of 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 L.A., 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.
UPC: 759656037518
Label: Kill Rock Stars
Release Date: 12.18.20
Format: LP Vinyl