An album of fantastical mini-epics framed in an elegant production esthetic, The Decemberists' seventh album, What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World, would be easy to love if it wasn't so damn hard to peg down. Lead singer and primary songwriter Colin Meloy sings like an inspired spokesman/everyman who's found the perfect soapbox, while Tucker Martine's beautiful production frames the band's songs in sonic ecstasies that range from the baroque strings and psy-rock scrawl of opener "The Singer Addresses His Audience," to the R.E.M.-does-"Penny Lane" grandiosity of "Cavalry Captain," and the surrealist Phil Ochs folk tableau of "Lake Song," to the spectral beauty of "Till The Water Is All Long Gone."
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