To be released on March 24th, 2009.

1. Prelude
2. Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won’t Wrestle the Thistles Undone)
3. A Bower Scene
4. Won’t Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga)
5. Hazards of Love 2 (Wager All)
6. The Queen’s Approach
7. Isn’t it a Lovely Night?
8. The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid
9. An Interlude
10. The Rake’s Song
11. The Abduction of Margaret
12. The Queen’s Rebuke/The Crossing
13. Annan Water
14. Margaret in Captivity
15. Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge!)
16. The Wanting Comes in Waves (Reprise)
17. Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned)


Let the hype begin, eh?

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If they tour Manchester I'm gonna take my dad, because he loves them. And I'm a good son.

I am so excited!!!

I heard five of those songs in a row when Colin played Portland in May, and they sounded great.

That's sweet, Ashley. The only one I've heard with my own ears is Burying Davey, which either isn't on here or is under a different name.

They debuted it at the Mann Center in Philly last summer, and I was front row. I think I was literally the first person to hear it.

/brag

Oh damn, I sent a message to Chris Funk about it on Myspace about an hour ago, he says

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it's part of a different body of work.

Hmm...

Colin's working on a musical about coal mining. There's speculation on /orate that it's a part of that. Awesome that Funk responded.

Yeah, that could definitely be it.

Can't believe he responded, and like less than an hour after I sent it. Looks like he's on top of things.

There sure is a lot of interludes... and reprises. Hope they didn't OD on the prog rock.

I am soo looking forward to this
the tracklist is great, i am so happy the Rake song is in there

I have been really looking forward to the next Decemberists cd since the beginning of the summer and now it's just a few months away!!!!!!

You can download "The Rake's Song" for free at decemberits.com now!

Listening to it for the first time now!! Wtf is that fuzz guitar on a decemberists song?

Listened to it twice now. I really really like it, it's pretty different.

That fuzzed out guitar is sweet, that's one of my favorite parts. It just sounds really raw, which is a good thing. Only thing I don't like is that it cuts out at the end... I need to hear the next song!

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Originally posted by *Ashley:
Colin's working on a musical about coal mining.

...Well that sounds like the most exciting musical ever.