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- Record Label: Capitol
- Release Date: Mar 13, 2012
- Summary: The two-disc live album collects 20 live songs from the band's tour for its 2011 album, The King Is Dead.
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- Record Label: Capitol
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock
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Positive: 11 out of 13
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Mixed: 2 out of 13
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Negative: 0 out of 13
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Mar 22, 2012Normally, a live album without a ton of rarities would be a hard sell to fans of the band, but We All Raise Our Voices to the Air is such a strong set of performances that even Decemberists diehards might have a hard time passing up on this one.
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Mar 10, 2012As a first achievement, the album it manages to inject a degree of zest into the songs from The King is Dead, jolting them from the somnolence which occasionally bogged their studio equivalents down.
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Mar 12, 2012All 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.
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Mar 13, 2012The 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.
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MagnetApr 6, 2012The band lives up to its rep as a tight live act. [#86, p.53]
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Apr 12, 2012The excellent Sara Watkins joins on fiddle, guitar and vocals for an eclectic mix of songs.
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Mar 13, 2012This is a surprisingly crisp live LP, even at two discs: taut and driving, full of Celtic and country flourishes, held together by richly melodic tunes.
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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Apr 27, 2012
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