{"id":598,"date":"2006-10-21T08:58:42","date_gmt":"2006-10-21T15:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/?p=598"},"modified":"2006-10-21T08:58:42","modified_gmt":"2006-10-21T15:58:42","slug":"sfx-the-decemberists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/sfx-the-decemberists\/","title":{"rendered":"SFX: The Decemberists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/feverblue\/273177889\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The Decemberists - The Crane Wife\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/26\/273177889_aa5ae39e17_o.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t stop listening to this album. It&#8217;s not exactly a sprawling work, but somehow, perhaps because two of the tracks are multi-part ten minute mini-stories, it feels epic. It&#8217;s a concept album with undeniably progressive flavor. Yes, that kind of progressive\u00e2\u20ac\u201dJethro Tull and King Crimson as opposed to John Digweed or Dave Ralph\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand there aren&#8217;t many bands who can pull this off (The Fiery Furnaces come to mind) but this album is a marvel from start to finish.<\/p>\n<p>I try to listen to something else, but like a ball on an elastic string, I keep bouncing back. Check out a taste, then go buy &#8220;The Crane Wife.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Decemberists &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/media\/yankee.mp3\">Yankee Bayonet<\/a> (224kps mpthree)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t stop listening to this album. It&#8217;s not exactly a sprawling work, but somehow, perhaps because two of the tracks are multi-part ten minute mini-stories, it feels epic. It&#8217;s a concept album with undeniably progressive flavor. Yes, that kind of progressive\u00e2\u20ac\u201dJethro Tull and King Crimson as opposed to John Digweed or Dave Ralph\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}