{"id":3603,"date":"2011-01-27T09:44:49","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T07:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/?p=3603"},"modified":"2011-01-27T09:45:28","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T07:45:28","slug":"the-decemberists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/2011\/01\/the-decemberists\/","title":{"rendered":"The Decemberists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3604\" title=\"December\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/December.jpg?resize=125%2C125\" alt=\"December\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/>Ik sta nogal ambivalent tegenover <a href=\"http:\/\/www.decemberists.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Decemberists<\/a>. In den beginne, we spreken van 2002, kon de mix van Portland-attitude en antieke Britse folk me op Castaways And Cutouts wel bekoren, maar gaandeweg verloor ik mijn interesse, want wat mij betreft waren de ambities van Colin Meloy en zijn trawanten net iets te hoog gegrepen. Dat brengt ons bij <strong>The King Is Dead<\/strong> (Capitol Records\/De Konkurrent), het vijfde Decemberists-album. De band heeft een eigen niche gevonden, wat toch ook wel wat zegt over hun uniciteit. Die credits krijgen ze. <!--more-->Op The King Is Dead nu, verbreden de decemberisten hun scope en arriveren aldus in het rijk van R.E.M. ten tijde van Out Of Time en Automatic For The People. Dat is niet verwonderlijk, want Peter Buck verleent zijn medewerking, evenals Gillian Welch en Dave Rawlings. Tucker Martine&#8217;s altijd warme productie draagt bij aan de kwaliteit van dit meer op de mainstream gerichte album, dat niettemin voldoende indie-folk in zich blijft dragen. Fraaie ballads ook.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ik sta nogal ambivalent tegenover The Decemberists. In den beginne, we spreken van 2002, kon de mix van Portland-attitude en antieke Britse folk me op Castaways And Cutouts wel bekoren, maar gaandeweg verloor ik mijn interesse, want wat mij betreft waren de ambities van Colin Meloy en zijn trawanten net iets te hoog gegrepen. Dat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recensies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3606,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions\/3606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}