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The Decemberists: As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again

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On June 14, 2024, “YABB” label released “As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again”, the ninth Decemberists (The) studio album. It was recorded 2019 – 2020, at “Flora Recording & Playback” in Portland, and was produced by Tucker Martine.

Personnel:

  • Colin Meloy — lead vocals, acoustic and electric guitars
  • Chris Funk — electric guitars, pedal steel, synthesizers, banjo, mandolin
  • Jenny Conlee — piano, organs, vibraphone, accordion, synthesizers
  • Nate Query — electric bass, upright bass
  • John Moen — drums, percussion
  • Mike Mills — piano, backing vocals
  • Kelly Pratt — saxophones, trumpet, flugelhorn, euphonium, tuba, trombone, French horn
  • Jesse Chandler — flute, bass clarinet
  • Miguel Bernal — percussion
  • Reinhardt Wolfgang Melz — percussion
  • Elizabeth Ellison — backing vocals
  • James Mercer — backing vocals
  • Tucker Martine — recording, mixing
  • Emily Lazar — mastering
  • Ryan Bridenstine — recording assistant, mixing assistant
  • Carson Ellis — illustrations, art direction
  • Thunderwing — art direction, design

Track listing:

All tracks by Colin Meloy.

  1. Burial Ground
  2. Oh No!
  3. The Reapers
  4. Long White Veil
  5. William Fitzwilliam
  6. Don’t Go to the Woods
  7. The Black Maria
  8. All I Want Is You
  9. Born to the Morning
  10. America Made Me
  11. Tell Me What’s on Your Mind
  12. Never Satisfied
  13. Joan in the Garden

The Decemberists: I’ll Be Your Girl

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On March 16, 2018, “Rough Trade” and “Capitol” labels released “I’ll Be Your Girl”, the eighth Decemberists (The) studio album. It was recorded 2017 – 2018, and was produced by John Congleton.

Personnel:

  • Colin Meloy – vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, backing vocals
  • Chris Funk – acoustic and electric guitar, banjo, bouzouki, mandolin, synthesizer, backing vocals
  • Jenny Conlee – accordion, organ, piano, synthesizer, vibraphone, backing vocals
  • Nate Query – cello, electric bass, upright bass, backing vocals
  • John Moen – drums, percussion. backing vocals
  • Mikaela Davis – harp
  • Gaelynn Lea – violin
  • Kelly Hogan – backing vocals
  • Nora O’Connor – backing vocals
  • Birch Query – choir
  • Eleanor Laurie – choir
  • Finn Query – choir
  • Louise Moen – choir
  • Max Markewitz – choir
  • Mina Greenberg Motamedi – choir
  • Sabrina Montgomery – choir
  • Satchel Laurie – choir
  • Scout Funk – choir vocals
  • John Congleton – recording, mixing
  • Adam Lee – recording assistant, mixing assistant, studio personnel
  • Greg Calbi – studio personnel

Track listing:

All tracks by Colin Meloy, except where noted.

  1. Once in My Life – Georgia Hubley, Ira Kaplan, Colin Meloy
  2. Cutting Stone
  3. Severed
  4. Starwatcher
  5. Tripping Along
  6. You Ghost
  7. Everything is Awful
  8. Sucker’s Prayer
  9. We All Die Young
  10. Rusalka, Rusalka / Wild Rushes
  11. I’ll Be Your Girl

The Decemberists: Picaresque

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On March 22, 2005, “Kill Rock Star” label released “Picaresque”, the third Decemberists (The) studio album. It was recorded August – September 2004, at “Prescott Church” in Portland, and was produced by Chris Walla, Colin  Meloy, Chris Funk, Jenny Conlee, Nate Query and John Moen.

Personnel:

  • Colin Meloy- lead vocals, guitar
  • Chris Funk- guitar, multi-instrumentalist
  • Jenny Conlee– voices, accordion, piano, keyboards
  • Nate Query- bass
  • Rachel Blumberg – drums, percussion, backing vocals
  • Aaron Stewart – tom tom
  • Petra Haden – violin, backing vocals
  • Sean Nelson – vocals, voices
  • Eric Stern – vocals
  • Paul Brainard – trumpet, horn arrangements
  • Joe Cunningham – tenor and baritone saxophone
  • Tom Hill – trombone
  • Jeff London – shofar
  • John Roderick – sound effects
  • Troy Tietjen – mixing
  • Carson Ellis – illustrations, design
  • Alicia J. Rose – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Colin Meloy.

  1. The Infanta
  2. We Both Go Down Together
  3. Eli, the Barrow Boy
  4. The Sporting Life
  5. The Bagman’s Gambit
  6. From My own True Love (Lost at Sea)
  7. Sixteen Military Wives
  8. The Engine Driver
  9. On the Bus Mail
  10. The Mariner’s Revenge Song
  11. Of Angels and Angels

The Decemberists: The King Is Dead

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On January 14, 2011, “Capitol” label released “The King Is Dead”, the sixth  Decemberists (The) album. It was recorded in 2010, at “Pendarvis Farm” in Portland, Oregon, and was produced by Tucker Martine.

Personnel:

  • Colin Meloy– vocals, acoustic , 12-string,  baritone and tenor guitar, harmonica, pump organ, percussion
  • Chris Funk– pedal steel, electric guitar,  banjo, bouzouki
  • Jenny Conlee–   piano,  organ,  accordion, Wurlitzer
  • Nate Query– bass guitar, cello
  • John Moen– drums, tambourine, shaker, percussion, backing vocals
  • Peter Buck– mandolin, 12-string electric, electric and baritone guitar
  • Annalisa Tornfelt – violin
  • David Rawlings– backing vocals
  • Gillian Welch– backing vocals
  • Laura Veirs– backing vocals
  • Tucker Martine– tambourine, recording, mixing
  • Rich Hipp, Clinton Welander – engineer assistant
  • Stephen Marcussen – mastering
  • Jeri Heiden for SMOG Design, Inc. – design
  • Carson Ellis – illustration, lettering
  • Autumn de Wilde – photography

Track listing:

All songs by Colin Meloy.

  1. Don’t Carry it All
  2. Calamity Song
  3. Rise to Me
  4. Rox in the Box
  5. January Hymn
  6. Down by the Water
  7. All Arise!
  8. June Hymn
  9. This is the Way We Fight
  10. Dear Avery

The Decemberists: What a Terrible World

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On January 20, 2015, “Capitol” label released “What a Terrible World”, What a Beautiful World”, the seventh Decemberists studio album. It was recorded in 2014, and was produced by Tucker Martine.

Personnel:

  • Colin Meloy- lead and backing vocals, acoustic and electric guitars,  bouzouki,  harmonica
  • Chris Funk- acoustic and electric guitars, banjo, bouzouki, mandolin
  • Jenny Conlee- piano, Hammond organ, vibraphone, accordion, keyboards
  • Nate Query- bass, upright bass
  • John Moen- drums, percussion, backing vocals
  • “The Singer Addresses His Audience” Choir: Kyleen King, Laura Veirs, Allison Hall, Bridgit Jacobson,Carson Ellis, Michael Finn, Jeremy Swatzky, Shelley Short, Steven Watkins, Ritchie Young, Moorea Masa
  • The “Anti-Summersong” Narrator Support Gang: Chris Funk, Nate Query, John Moen, Jason Colton,Tucker Martine
  • Victor Nash -trumpet
  • Rob Moose -violin, fiddle
  • Kyleen King -viola
  • Patti King – violin
  • Anna Fritz -cello
  • Rachel Flotard – backging vocals
  • Kelly Hogan– backging vocals
  • Laura Veirs– backging vocals
  • Ragen Fykes – backging vocals
  • Moorea Masa – backging vocals
  • Rob Moose – string arrangemets
  • Tucker Martine – recording, mixing
  • Stephen Marcussen – mastering
  • Michael Finn – assistant engineer
  • Jeri Heiden, Glen Nakasako – design
  • Carson Ellis – illustrations, lettering
  • Autumn de Wilde – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Colin Meloy.

  1. The Singer Addresses His Audience
  2. Cavalry Captain
  3. Philomena
  4. Make You Better
  5. Lake Song
  6. Till the Water’s All Long Gone
  7. The Wrong Year
  8. Carolina Low
  9. Better Not Wake the Baby
  10. Anti-Summersong
  11. Easy Come, Easy Go
  12. Mistral
  13. 12/17/12
  14. A Beginning Song

The Decemberists: The Crane Wife

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On October 3, 2006, “Capitol” label released “The Crane Wife” the fourth Decemberists (The) album. It was recorded March – June 2006, and was produced by Tucker Martine, Chris Walla and The Decemberists.

Personnel:

  • Colin Meloy– vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bouzouki, percussion
  • Chris Funk– guitar, pedal steel, bouzouki, banjo, hammered dulcimer, hurdy-gurdy, percussion, backing vocals
  • Jenny Conlee – piano, Wurlitzer, pump organ, Hammond organ, Moog bass, accordion, glockenspiel, percussion, backing vocals
  • Nate Query– electric bass, upright bass, cello, percussion, backing vocals
  • John Moen– drums, percussion, backing vocals
  • Eyvind Kang- viola, violin
  • Christopher Walla – keyboards, backing vocals
  • Steve Drizos -hand drums
  • Laura Veirs- duet vocal
  • Ezra Holbrook – backing vocals
  • Rich Hipp – engineer assistant
  • Tucker Martine, Christopher Walla – mixing
  • Roger Seibel – mastering
  • Carson Ellis -design, illustrations, lettering
  • Colin Meloy – design
  • Mike King – layout, design
  • Band portraits drawn from photographs by Autumn de Wilde

Track listing:

All tracks by Colin Meloy.

  1. The Crane Wife 3
  2. The Island: Come and See/The Landlord’s Daughter/You’ll Not Feel the Drowning
  3. Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)
  4. O Valencia!
  5. The Perfect Crime #2
  6. When the War Came
  7. Shankill Butchers
  8. Summersong
  9. The Crane Wife 1 & 2
  10. Sons & Daughters

Stephen Malkmus And The Jicks: Pig Lib

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On March 18, 2003, “Matador” label released “Pig Lib”, the second Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks studio album. It was recorded May – August 2002, at “Bear Creek Studios”, “Jackpot! Recording Studios”, and was produced by Ryan Hadlock and Jicks.

Personnel:

  • Stephen Malkmus – vocals, lead guitar, synthesizers
  • Mike Clark – guitar, keyboards
  • Joanna Bolme – bass, backing vocals
  • John Moen – drums, backing vocals
  • Jicks – mixing
  • Ryan Hadlock – mixing
  • Greg Calbi – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by Stephen Malkmus.

  1. Water and a Seat
  2. Ramp of Death
  3. (Do Not Feed the) Oyster
  4. Vanessa from Queens
  5. Sheets
  6. Animal Midnight
  7. Dark Wave
  8. Witch Mountain Bridge
  9. Craw Song
  10. 1% of One
  11. Us

 

Stephen Malkmus: Same

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Stephen Malkmus

On February 13, 2001, “Matador Records” released the self-titled, debut Stephen Malkmus album. It was recorded May to August 2000, and was produced by Clarence Skiboots.

Personnel:

  • Stephen Malkmus– vocals, guitar, keyboards, synthesizer, bass
  • Joanna Bolme– piano, synthesizer, bass, claves, backing vocals
  • John Moen– drums, percussion, backing vocals
  • Heather Larimer – percussion, backing vocals

Track listing:

All tracks by Stephen Malkmus.

  1. Black Book
  2. Phantasies
  3. Jo Jo’s Jacket
  4. Church on White
  5. The Hook
  6. Discretion Grove
  7. Troubbble
  8. Pink India
  9. Trojan Curfew
  10. Vague Space
  11. Jenny and the Ess-Dog
  12. Deado