I wrote “Calamity Song” shortly after I’d finished reading David Foster Wallace’s epic Infinite Jest. The book didn’t so much inspire the song itself, but Wallace’s irreverent and brilliant humor ...
They've written sea shanties and folk operas, heavy metal epics and jaunty odes to chimney sweeps, doomed mariners and forest dwellers. Every song is a novella for The Decemberists. It's taken six ...
Colin Meloy writes novels in the forms of songs. His band The Decemberists returns with their ninth studio album, As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again. They've written sea shanties and folk operas, ...