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The Decemberists’ fourth full-length album, and their first for a major record label, is, in my opinion, their best album to date. What’s great about “The Crane Wife” is that it has a major record label sound without sacrificing the style that made The Decemberists the great, unique band that they are.
The Story
The Crane Wife is an old Japanese folk tale. While there are many variations of the tale, a common version is that a poor man finds an injured crane on his doorstep (or outside with an arrow in …

The Montreal band founded by husband and wife Win Butler and R???gine Chassagne make their full-length debut with this highly anticipated disc.
Funeral is the first album by The Arcade Fire. It was released on September 14, 2004 by Merge Records. As the title of the album suggests, much of Funeral is about death, but in a way that is cautiously optimistic rather than gloomy, dark or depressing.
Original sound of Arcade Fire.
* “Neighbourhood #3 (Power Out)”:track-o-mania/neighbourhood-3-power-out is based on their experiences of the North American ice storm in 1998.
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Grace, released August 23, 1994 (see 1994 in music), is the first and only complete studio album by Jeff Buckley. While the album initially had poor sales, only peaking at #149 in the US, it received wide critical acclaim. Each year, the album gains more fans and larger support from people around the world.

Seven Swans is a folk rock music album by Sufjan Stevens. Although Stevens often has religious themes in his albums, Seven Swans is almost dominated by them. It includes songs about Abraham and Christ’s Transfiguration.
The album is softer and sparser than Stevens’s others, relying more heavily on his trademark banjo and melodramatic voice.
Seven Swans was received well by critics. The Guardian called it “a record of remarkable delicacy” and Spin magazine said it sounded “like Elliott Smith after ten years of Sunday school”.

Illinois sounds like The Sea and Cake collaborating with the high-school band from a Wes Anderson film on banjo-driven, pulsing meditations on Vince Guaraldi’s music for Peanuts.
Sufjan Stevens, the singer-songwriter behind the endeavor, is an earnest and whimsical young man who aims to record an album based on every state in the union, though this is just his second attempt since 2003’s Michigan. Lavish praise has been heaped upon this precocious twenty-something, who weaves personal recollections, historical narratives, and strange facts together to create lush portraits of Midwestern life.
It’s …