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Universal acclaim- based on 127 Ratings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 115 out of 127
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Mixed: 3 out of 127
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Negative: 9 out of 127
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JoeDMay 31, 2005the band is great, but meloy overpowers it with his horrible bleating. He has a painfully weak falsetto and mispronounces words like "there" on purpose. He sucks and would not be in the band if he had not started it.
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losnycJun 8, 2005see you at the renn fair! nuf said about this crappy, pretentous band.
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Awards & Rankings
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Entertainment Weekly[Meloy's] lyrics skip across history... and overflow with mellifluous rhymes. [25 Mar 2005, p.71]
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Picaresque is a triumph of theatrical imagination: the culmination of the Decemberists' steady march to greatness in four years of enriched storytelling and folk-rock invention.
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Alternative PressThe more realized updates of [Her Majesty] that crowd out the backed of Picaresque reveal a wit so bizarre and vaudevillian beauty so ultimately endearing that by the end, Meloy's sprawling form of theatrical folk has us all. [Apr 2005, p.116]