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"Love" Epic

March 18, 2009 at 10:33am (updated March 25, 2009 at 2:24pm) by Jeremy Petersen

On the day that his band unveils their new opus in stores, Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy talks to us about The Hazards of Love. No strangers to extended compositions, the band ups the ante considerably this time around, stretching out into a 58-minute folk epic that features appearances from Lavender Diamond’s Becky Stark and My Brightest Diamond’s Shara Worden, among others. The album is out today on Capitol.

The Decemberists are signing copies of the new record tonight (3/24) at Music Millenium from 6-8pm.

MP3: The Decemberists- "The Rake's Song"

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