Friday New To Me: Decemberists Scavenger Hunt Edition

As you may or may or man not know, The Decemberists have just put out a new EP, Long Live the King a collection of outtakes and demos from their not great for The Decemberists, but still good by every other standard release The King is Dead. As a lead-up of sorts, they released five of the EP’s six tracks across blogs the week before the album came out.

Always late to the party, here is my favorite track, “Foregone”

While I loved the whole EP, and I hope that their Demo “I 4 U and U 4 Me” makes its way onto a future album, if this were a reality competition, and I got to pick one eliminated challenger to participate in the finals (even I’m not following this metaphor anymore), it would be “Foregone,” it just does such a great job bridging the feel of this The King is Dead with the sound of some of their older tracks.

You can see the original posts on Paste, Vulture, Rolling Stone, Stereogum, and The Huffington Post.

Their cover of the far too long and not very good cover of the Grateful Dead’s “Row Jimmy” remains unreleased