Blog: State Magazine

The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love

Portland's own folk-rock concept album creators are back with a new LP that much like The Crane Wife before it, is a gathering of songs held together by a narrative and style gleaned from British folk music, and all sparked off by the discovery of one Anne Brigg's 1966 EP, The Hazards Of Love . Are you still with us? Fair play. One may have thought that the wonderful Crane Wife had got this sort of album out of their system – elegant as it was in its songs based around the oriental [...]