{"id":862,"date":"2005-05-05T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-05T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=862"},"modified":"2024-04-03T16:48:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T16:48:28","slug":"the-decemberists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=862","title":{"rendered":"The Decemberists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Picaresque<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsreview.com\/media\/images\/articles\/featured\/2020\/07\/35262-01.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Trying to pigeonhole the Decemberists, Portland\u2019s traveling troupe of gypsies, is becoming a tedious task these days. While the group\u2019s catalog and fan base grow exponentially, so does its varied sound. Once coined \u201cliterary pop,\u201d the band\u2019s latest is sure to invoke considerable amounts of head scratching. From the folk-tinged \u201cEli, The Barrow Boy\u201d to the raucous \u201cThe Sporting Life,\u201d this album has something to offer everyone. Vocalist Colin Meloy and his crop of performers, too numerous to mention, have struck upon a chord that aims at the psyche while invigorating the body and inciting leg spasms. If artists such as World Party, Robyn Hitchcock or even the Mountain Goats mean something to you, you\u2019d best find this album soon. The Decemberists have done good\u2014real good\u2014again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(SN&amp;R)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picaresque Trying to pigeonhole the Decemberists, Portland\u2019s traveling troupe of gypsies, is becoming a tedious task these days. While the group\u2019s catalog and fan base grow exponentially, so does its varied sound. Once coined \u201cliterary pop,\u201d the band\u2019s latest is sure to invoke considerable amounts of head scratching. From the folk-tinged \u201cEli, The Barrow Boy\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}