It would seem this generation now has its own version of The Wall, or least Fantasia! as the fantastical latest effort from The Decemberists, The Hazards of Love, now has a full-length visual companion. While this trailer suggests that the film doesn't seem to correspond to the sordid tale being told (something frontman Colin Meloy intimated would be the case with any such project when we talked to him last March), it does play off the vaguely psychedelic and pastoral British folk elements that underlie the music. Plus, it also works as a PSA (working title: The Hazards of Drugs).
Filmmakers Julia Pott, Santa Maria, Peter Sluszka and Guilherme Marcondes all contributed to the project, entitled Here Come the Waves: The Hazards of Love Visualized. Expect it to be available excusively via iTunes beginning December 1st.
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