Everybody hurts, man.
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife Alternative Press - Tim Karan on 2/28/07 @ 3:14 PM - altpress.com
[4/5] The label suits must be envisioning a R.E.M. v2.0 career arc for the Decemberists. Consider: Esoteric minor-label act gets big-league bucks to dominate the ears of the text-message generation (a la Death Cab For Cutie signing to Atlantic), and Capitol gets bragging rights about somebody other than Coldplay. But if you check the indie yearbook, frontman Colin Meloy was voted "most perspicacious" (defined as "acutely insightful and wise"-
five-dollar word ed.) rather than "most popular," so the callow hearts of Laguna Beach won't be breaking to the tales of murder and rape that dominate
The Crane WifeThe Crane Wife isn't automatic for the people yet, but it's far from green.
(CAPITOL) Erick Haight
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