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| Blogcritics |
 From the groovy "The Perfect Crime #2" and the simple "Shankhill Butchers" to the hauntingly heavy "When the War Came," The Crane Wife is certainly never boring....full text |
| AV Club |
| As great as The Decemberists' 2005 Picaresque is, the band's real creative breakthrough came a year earlier, on the 18-minute single "The Tain," which integrated Colin Meloy's hyper-literate whimsy into an ambitious yet tuneful song-suite. On the second track of The Decemberists' new album, The Crane Wife, Meloy brings "Tain"-like grandeur to "The Island," a three-part, 12-minute mini-epic that starts out describing a forbidding landscape, and ends up describing the rape and murder that occurred there....full text |
| ShakingThrough |
| Let’s not beat around the bush. The Crane Wife is the Decemberists' best album. This statement could be prefaced with descriptions of how this niche indie-rock band with a penchant for storytelling mushroomed its fan base over three albums and two EPs, only to be picked up by a major label, and is now poised to release an album that will deliver their sound to an even wider audience, but that's beside the point. The Crane Wife is an album that nicely fits into the Decemberists' universe and has roots in earlier works, but sounds -- and hangs together -- better than any of them....full text |
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