![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Colin 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. "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. ![]()
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