Concert Review: The Decemberists 5.27.20097 out of 10
The other night Becca and I were extremely excited to see the Decemberists perform their new album/rock-opera "Hazards of Love". If you do not know the whole story line and are interested, check out this link and read about it. The thing that impressed me the most was that Colin Meloy wrote it over several years and his band was cool enough to help him put it together and perform it.
Will Hermes of the Rolling Stone described the live experience well "The Hazards of Love brings the glorious excess: There's strummy British folk rock and heavy–metal thunder, orchestral strings and a children's choir." The two women vocalist parts (Becky Stark (Lavender Diamond), Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond) are awesome. They definitely won over the entire audience.
Overall, we both enjoyed the show and plan to see them again when they come through. They closed the rock-opera set and followed with a collection of songs from their previously released albums. We stayed for 4 or 5 tracks, but realized our 5 am work alarms were only 5 hours away :(.
-Steven
