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Release date: 13-09-2005

2005 Reissue Edition -including 5 songs not found on the CD release, also include 24 colour pages booklet with all new photographs.sealed.

Those looking for an album cover suitable for framing (perhaps to go alongside those Louis XIV and Oxes platters hanging in the bathroom) need search no further than the vinyl version of the Decemberists' third and most excellent full-length, Picturesque, co-released today by Kill Rock Stars and Jealous Butcher.
According to the Jealous Butcher website, it's a fancy double LP in a gatefold sleeve with a 24-page full color booklet, featuring brand new pix from the Picaresque photo shoot. Although Pitchfork's Stephen M. Deusner begged the band to "Re-sleeve that album cover! Disregard those silly liner-note photographs!" in his Picaresque review, we'd like to politely disagree, and wholeheartedly endorse anything involving Chris Funk dressed up as a tree.

The vinyl also tacks on "Picaresqueties", five kinda new songs from Colin Meloy and co., including the Decemberists' cover of Joanna Newsom's "Bridges and Balloons", as featured on The Believer magazine's much-maligned Music Issue companion CD.

Tracks:
01 The Infanta
02 We Both Go Down Together
03 Eli, The Barrow Boy
04 The Sporting Life
05 The Bagman's Gambit
06 From My Own True Love (Lost At Sea)
07 16 Military Wives
08 The Engine Driver
09 On The Bus Mall
10 Mariner's Revenge Song
11 Of Angels and Angles
12 The Bandit Queen (With "Dialogue" and "Tap Dancing")
13 Bridges and Balloons
14 Constantinople
15 The Kingdom of Spain (Version Prescott)
16 The Bandit Queen (Version Prescott)

For a paragon of urban cool, the Decemberists, with their fanciful tales and slightly effete self-presentation, are about as un-street as you can get (this side of Sufjan Stevens). Their most recent album, The Crane Wife, has been receiving considerable buzz -- and rightly so, as it's sprawling compositions are both evocative and versatile. Honestly, as good as Crane Wife is, I prefer Picaresque, if only because Crane's polished sound seems so, well, un-Decemberists. Picaresque sounds like the soundtrack to treasure island, full of corsairs and sea chanties. Colin Melloy, with his fake British accent, cuts an awkwardly loveable leading man, while the album's closing tracks, like "The Engine Driver" (which almost brings a tear to my lupine eye) and "Angels and Angles," clearly pointed out what was coming down the pike, more than a year prior.