Album Info

The Crane Wife

Pop - 2007

The Decemberists’ ornate, highly literary folk-pop reached peak clarity on The Crane Wife, their first for a major label. Anchored... more

Tracklist

1

The Crane Wife 3

4:18 min
2

The Island

12:26 min
3

Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)

4:18 min
4

O Valencia!

3:47 min
5

The Perfect Crime #2

5:33 min
6

When the War Came

5:06 min
7

Shankill Butchers

4:39 min
8

Summersong

3:31 min
9

The Crane Wife 1 & 2

11:19 min
10

Sons & Daughters

5:13 min
11

Culling of the Fold

4:23 min
12

After the Bombs

5:04 min

About The Crane Wife

The Decemberists’ ornate, highly literary folk-pop reached peak clarity on The Crane Wife, their first for a major label. Anchored by a song cycle based on an old Japanese folktale, the album (whose other subjects include the Siege of Leningrad and a Protestant paramilitary group in Northern Ireland) is a wildly ambitious undertaking, more indebted to Jethro Tull than indie rock, peppered by bouzouki and hurdy-gurdy and other obscure, alluring sounds that helped foster the band’s deserved cult audience.