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Song and features languish vocals and slow paced music. Heavy riff, almost doom in the early babblings, this piece of music turns out to be a more "Decemberists" This second EP from The Decemberists consists of only one epic song (divided in five parts) which isįrankly on the heavy edge of the folk genre (opening and closing parts). Posted Thursday, J| Review this album | Report (Review #127621) And good for him a very decent effort, not essential, but good nonetheless. Think that’s what Meloy’s goal tends to be when he drudges some of these old stories up and reinvents them as modern folk Quite a bit of very indie-sounding vocal/rhythm interplay, especially toward the end, that perhaps takes just a bit away from theīut in the end this is a very engaging bit of music that has been well-received by the band’s fans, and brings awareness to anĪncient and fascinating story that might otherwise have languished a bit longer in the folk cloisters of Irish traditionalists. The glockenspiel, Hammond organ, and accordion make this sound more like a Jewish klezmer polka than an Irish jig. Musically this is a bit off-kilter at times as well, such as in the third stanza where Seeming to take a great deal of literary license. This version also strays from the older Horslips version by presenting a much more abstract view of the story, with some lyrics Probably not historically accurate, but certainly colorful. Kisser” was used to paint a picture of the queen Medb. The Decemberists version of the tale became somewhat notorious when the lyric “she’s a salty little pisser with your cock in her Other literary works he has morphed into indie-prog classics. More likely though he picked up on this while studying literature in college, and this would be consistent with the many that has a heavily Irish population, it is certainly possible that this is a story he learned as aĬhild. I don’t see or hearĪny evidence they approached this with any sense of cultural reverence or anything like that, although considering Meloy comesįrom an area of Montana, U.S.A. Retelling of the tale, the Decemberists are only interested in the story as a colorful and ancient literary work. While Horslips intended to deliver a respectful and accurate Thirty years prior, but it is interesting in the difference of approach. This isn’t as faithful or comprehensive a telling of the story of the Táin as Horslips managed on their album of the same name Release, and does a great job of drawing out the band’s creative side and harnessing their instrumental experimentation into a Death Cab for Cutie guitarist Chris Walla produced this and the band’s subsequent ‘Picaresque’ This was released in Spain between the band’s Record in that it consists of a single, unbroken eighteen and a half minute track. Colin Meloy takes his own stab at the 2,500 year-old story of Táin Bó Cúailnge with this 2004 release EP.