The Decemberists - "July, July!"
I had just about forgotten about The Decemberists until watching Portlandia (combined with the chance overhearing of this song in a coffee shop the other day) reminded me of how great they were. This isn't exactly the best song from their first album, but it's the catchiest, the first one I would recommend to someone who hadn't listened to Castaways and Cutouts. It's more uptempo, the closest thing to a real rocker on the album, and it displays all the qualities that we like about the band: the quirky literary sensibility, a good melodic hook, the steady drill of the organ over Colin Meloy's acoustic guitar, and above all an endearing sense of the richness and strangeness of life. I haven't been following The Decemberists much lately, but I'm thinking that it might be worth seeing what they've been up to.
Chickens.
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