When you play in a band (presumably) named after an early nineteenth-century Russian uprising, fronted by a dude from Oregon who writes novels, and that is often the recipient of positive album reviews that make liberal use of the words “shanty” and “accordion,” the last thing anyone expects out of you is any semblance of rock-and-roll swagger.
Well, on their new track, “Down by the River,” the lead single from January’s just-announced The King Is Dead, the Decemberists … still sound like precise folk-rockers. But, in a trend begun on 2009’s The Hazards of Love, there’s an appreciated extra layer of oomph .
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