The Decemberists

Group / 2000 - present / United States

indie folk indie pop indie rock folk rock progressive folk folk

Biography

The Decemberists are an American indie rock band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2000. The band consists of Colin Meloy, Chris Funk, Jenny Conlee, Nate Query (bass), and John Moen (drums).

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Elsewhere

Analysed songs (2)

Down By the Water

The Decemberists

A rangy, harmonica-flecked folk-rock tune built around a single refrain that fixes the action in one riverside, working-town…

desire and self-destruction place and memory erosion/nature as metaphor

This Is Why We Fight

The Decemberists

A martial invocation built almost entirely of imperative fragments, this song stages war as ritual and myth rather than event,…

war and its costs ritual and incantation idealism versus futility