As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again

by The Decemberists

As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 14 June 2024
  • Label: YABB
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:07:46
  • Community rating: 3.48/5 from 9 ratings

Artists on this release: Mike Mills, James Mercer, Nate Query, John Moen, Jesse Chandler, Jenny Conlee, Elizabeth Ellison, Colin Meloy, Reinhardt Melz, Miguel Bernal, Kelly Pratt, Chris Funk, Tucker Martine

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The veteran Portland literary-folk ensemble returns to their most grandiose, structurally ambitious inclinations, concluding the double album with a sprawling, nineteen-minute progressive rock suite. The project effortlessly traverses breezy folk-pop, morose acoustic ballads, and eccentric storytelling, reaffirming their distinctively theatrical aesthetic.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, death, melodic, storytelling, literary, folk, male-vocals, ballad

Tracklist

  1. Burial Ground (4:04)
  2. Oh No! (5:04)
  3. The Reapers (4:41)
  4. Long White Veil (3:49)
  5. William Fitzwilliam (3:35)
  6. Don't Go to the Woods (3:57)
  7. The Black Maria (3:50)
  8. All I Want Is You (2:38)
  9. Born to the Morning (3:24)
  10. America Made Me (5:20)
  11. Tell Me What's on Your Mind (3:57)
  12. Never Satisfied (4:00)
  13. Joan in the Garden (19:20)

Credits

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