{"id":334,"date":"2007-01-23T22:44:42","date_gmt":"2007-01-24T03:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=334"},"modified":"2007-01-23T22:44:42","modified_gmt":"2007-01-24T03:44:42","slug":"the-decemberists-the-crane-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2007\/the-decemberists-the-crane-wife\/","title":{"rendered":"The Decemberists &#8212; The Crane Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/decemberiststhecranewife.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-594\" title=\"The Decemberists -- The Crane Wife\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/decemberiststhecranewife.jpg\" alt=\"The Decemberists -- The Crane Wife\" width=\"500\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> The Decemberists<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> The Crane Wife<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 2006<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> CD<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 8<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Mary<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> 2006 &#8211; Christmas gift!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What? What is this? Sometimes The Decemberists remind me of The Zutons, The Shins, and maybe even Cake. Then there&#8217;s that second song &#8220;The Island: &#8211; Come and See &#8211; The Landlord&#8217;s Daughter &#8211; You&#8217;ll Not Feel the Drowning.&#8221; Yes, that <em>is<\/em> the title, and it&#8217;s befitting since this ditty is over twelve minutes and moves from sounding like a sea shanty to classic progrock a la Yes. What? <em>The Crane Wife<\/em> opens with a title track, &#8220;The Crane Wife, Part 3.&#8221; Later in the album there is &#8220;The Crane Wife, Parts 1 &amp; 2&#8221; which is also Freedbird-esque in its length. In between there are a number of more accessible, normal format songs, and they are all interesting.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t figured out the album concept entirely. All the not-of-this-time artwork (much more than shown here) and lyrics make it seem mysterious, and that keeps it interesting. Of course, there&#8217;s plenty of mystery in the music itself.<\/p>\n<p>Help me figure it out:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.decemberists.com\/\">Decemeberists.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Decemberists\">The Decemberists at Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: The Decemberists Title: The Crane Wife Year: 2006 Format: CD Rating (1-10): 8 Owner: Mary Acquired: 2006 &#8211; Christmas gift! Keeper: Yes What? What is this? Sometimes The Decemberists remind me of The Zutons, The Shins, and maybe even Cake. Then there&#8217;s that second song &#8220;The Island: &#8211; Come and See &#8211; The Landlord&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[466,452,453],"tags":[529,555,604,641,684,748,46],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-d","category-music","category-record-collection","tag-529","tag-art-rock","tag-cd","tag-decemberists","tag-folk-rock","tag-indie","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}