One would think that a band who releases an album every year would run thin on material after a CD or two. The Decemberists, however, have proved this logic incorrect. Since their debut full-length “Castaways and Cutouts” in 2002, the band has been averaging one release per year, making “The Crane Wife” their fifth full-length release. They have all but lost originality from one album to the next. With Colin Meloy’s creative lyrics and songwriting abilities, the band captures a variety of styles and emotions from start to finish. The CD contains two tracks that clock in at over eleven minutes each. Each is a rock opera like feel, changing directions and dynamics many times throughout the songs. This is what Green Day wishes they could have done with their CD “American Idiot”. There is not one song that needs to be skipped on this album. It is solid from beginning to end. Check out the first single “O Valencia” along with, well, every song on the album. I have not come across an album this solid in some time.

Rating: 9.5/10

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