The Decemberists = Bored Face at Treasure Island
The Decemberists Photo by: Autumn DeWilde
Anyone who purchased a $65 ticket to see sunday’s lineup at the Treasure Island Music Festival in San Francisco, CA was awarded the privilege to witness The Decemberists give the worst performance in main stage festival history.
I mean that shiz was wiggity wack, not just the regular type!
Decemberist fans from the early 2000s might remember heartwarming Meloy for his acoustic folk gems like Leslie Anne Levine and Engine Driver. But now, The Decemberists have gone electric and not in a Bob Dylan kind of way.
Here is the story: The Decemberists released their newest album The Hazards of Love, designed to be a rock opera, on March 24, 2009. The plot is a love story, a woman – dressed as a fairy – named Margaret (Becky Stark of Lavender Diamond) falls in love with a shape-shifting boreal forest dweller named William (lead singer Colin Meloy). But as we all know, no story is complete without a jealous forest queen (Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond) to add a little controversy to the wackjob ensemble of characters that create this album.
Does this sound lame? That’s because it is. And oh yeah, they played the WHOLE thing.
If the ‘fairy’ and ‘forest dweller’ weren’t enough to send fans straight to the nearest Porta Potty, a terribly animated film that played along side this three chord opera sealed the deal.
Fans have always loved The Decemberists because of Meloy’s knack for storytelling but this time he missed the mark. I give the band credit for trying to push the envelope and do something new but the band needs to get back in the studio and do something good.
Where to start? Get rid of the fairy.
ohhh zingy review…..
i would agree. although if the fairy wasn’t there i think i would have been even more bored than I was. The fairy gets points for entertainment value.