Her Majesty The Decemberists
by The Decemberists
- Type: Album
- Released: 9 September 2003
- Label: Kill Rock Stars, Trifekta, Jealous Butcher
- Country: United States
- Length: 48:26
- Community rating: 3.61/5 from 8 ratings
Artists on this release: Mike Lah, Cory Gray, Bridget Callahan, Rachel Blumberg, Emily Cox, Chris Funk, Jesse Emerson, Colin Meloy, John Golden, Eyvind Kang, Lucia Atkinson
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'Her Majesty The Decemberists' expands the band's eccentric, literary approach to indie folk with lush chamber pop instrumentation. The record features highly narrative, character-driven songwriting that is both musically uplifting and lyrically archaic, creating a distinctively theatrical aesthetic.
Genres
Descriptors: melodic, literary, storytelling, theatrical, chamber, male-vocals
Tracklist
- Shanty for the Arethusa (05:37)
- Billy Liar (04:08)
- Los Angeles, I'm Yours (04:17)
- The Gymnast, High Above the Ground (07:13)
- The Bachelor and the Bride (04:12)
- Song for Myla Goldberg (03:33)
- The Soldiering Life (03:48)
- Red Right Ankle (03:29)
- The Chimbley Sweep (02:53)
- I Was Meant For the Stage (07:02)
- As I Rise (02:14)
Credits
- voice - Member
- Chris Funk - Member, electric guitar, pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar, dobro, synthesizer [oberheim], percussion, synthesizer, resonator guitar
- hurdy gurdy - Member
- dulcimer - Member
- electric piano - Member
- organ - Member
- synthesizer - Member
- Eyvind Kang - Member
- keyboards - Member
- Colin Meloy - Member, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, percussion, voice, design [assisted by], illustration [assisted by], songwriter, design/illustration, vocal
- Mike Johnson - arranged by [strings], stringsarranger
- Mike Lah - cello [her majesty's string quartet], cello
- Carson Ellis - design, illustration, voice [blood curdling scream], design/illustration, other vocals vocal
- Rachel Blumberg - drums, voice [backing], percussion, vibraphone, glockenspiel, organ, drums (drum set), background vocals vocal
- Jesse Emerson - electric bass, double bass [upright bass], percussion, electric bass guitar, double bass
- Adam Selzer - engineer [engineered by], producer [with]
- Lawrence Crane - engineer [engineered by], producer [with]
- Kenneth Erlick - handclaps
- Dave Lipkind - harmonica [chromatic], chromatic harmonica
- Brady Clark - layout, art direction [production]
- John Golden - mastered by, mastering
- Jenny Conlee - organ [hammond], electric piano [rhodes], piano [upright], accordion, electric piano [wulitzer], voice [backing], percussion, Hammond organ, Rhodes piano, upright piano, Wurlitzer electric piano, background vocals vocal
- The Decemberists - producer [produced by]
- Cory Gray - trumpet, trombone, handclaps
- Bridget Callahan - viola [her majesty's string quartet], viola
- Emily Cox - violin [her majesty's string quartet], violin
- Lucia Atkinson - violin [her majesty's string quartet], violin