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The DecemberistsWe All Raise Our Voices To The Air (Live Songs 04.11-08.11)73
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They are theatre as much as they are music: embracing vaudeville and folk in the old-style knife a-slashing, maids a-weeping, plots a-stirring, love conquers all sense.
All in all, We All Raise Our Voices ... is a fun listen, and one that really makes the case for the Decemberists as a powerful force, despite what you might have felt about those last two studio albums.
The Decemberists remain an energetic, underrated live unit, though the versions of the band’s more straightforward tracks don’t vary radically from their studio versions, nor add much to them.
Listening to We All Raise Our Voices was a pleasant surprise, and made me want to immediately go back and revisit the original records again
We All Raise Our Voices to the Air sounds less like a tour document than a greatest hits, struggling to sum up the band's career and find some new direction forward.
Her Majesty the Decemberists
(2003)Picaresque
(2005)Long Live the King
(2011)The King is Dead
(2011)DETAILS
RATINGS
| 80 | Consequence of Sound [src ] |
| 80 | Drowned in Sound [src] |
| 80 | PopMatters [src] |
| 75 | A.V. Club [src] |
| 75 | Beats Per Minute [src] |
| 70 | Paste [src] |
| 69 | Pitchfork [src] |
| 50 | Spin [src] |
Disc 1
- The Infanta
- Calamity Song
- Rise To Me
- The Soldiering Life
- We Both Go Down Together
- The Bagman’s Gambit
- Down By The Water
- Leslie Ann Levine
- The Rake’s Song
- The Crane Wife 1, 2, and 3
Disc 2
- Oceanside
- Billy Liar
- Grace Cathedral Hill
- All Arise!
- Rox In The Box
- June Hymn
- Dracula’s Daughter > O Valencia!
- This Is Why We Fight
- The Mariner’s Revenge Song
- I Was Meant For The Stage
