On 01-07-11 5:13 PM, Michael Adelsheim wrote:
> NPR is streaming the whole album at the below link.  I've only listened
> to three songs so far, but it kinda marks a new direction for them.  It
> search has more than a touch of Americana, and bringing in Peter Buck
> and Gillian Welch on a few songs really emphasizes this.  The second
> song jangles with the best of them!
>
> www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action+1&1=1&islist=false&id=1324
> 36422&m=13243862

Btw, I was reading the latest New Yorker and there's a 1 page 
Decemberists article which focuses in on the fact this new record 
debuted as #1 on the Billboard 200 album charts by moving just 93,000 
copies. Just shows how the "long tail" of music is now wagging the body. 
Not mentioned in the story is that digital downloading is singles centric.

  - Michael, who has always & will forever be "singles" focused

NP: my under-construction SOTT 23 comp, simply awesome of course :)