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- Record Label: Kill Rock Stars
- Release Date: Sep 9, 2003
- Summary: This is the second album for the Portland, Ore.-based indie five-piece led by Colin Meloy.
- Record Label: Kill Rock Stars
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 18
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Mixed: 2 out of 18
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Negative: 0 out of 18
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Alternative PressA thrilling listen. [Dec 2003, p.140]
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Meloy's words stir your insides like good poetry, his imaginative tales climb into your mind, set up camp and stay awhile. But without the enchanting, heart-wrenching and totally affecting power that is the consequence of The Decemberists' music, the words would not have ever found life.
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Under The RadarIt's as though The Decemberists have been able to somehow summon that mystical muse that allows for all of the wonder of the musical world to open. [#5, p.100]
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Even though Her Majesty isn't quite as striking and full-formed as Castaways and Cutouts, it's still a consistently charming album that finds the band coming into its own.
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Clever without being pretentious.
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This all may sound ostentatious or showy, but it isn't: Her Majesty aims high and hits a difficult mark, delivering glorious, sometimes fantastic tales without ever getting boorish.
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BlenderStaggers under the unbearable preciousness of donkey-voiced singer Colin Meloy. [Sep 2003, p.122]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 14 out of 18
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Mixed: 1 out of 18
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Negative: 3 out of 18
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LukeApr 16, 2005Tthe best album I have ever purchased for the sake of one song - "The Soldiering Life."
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TheCriticJul 17, 2006
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VincentHMar 19, 2007
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AabraJAug 10, 2004
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AsiaZJun 13, 2004
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Dec 15, 2012
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JakeOct 20, 2004You've GOT to be kidding me. Insufferably pretentious horsesh-t.
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