Brooklyn Vegan — The Decemberists' fifth album, The Hazards of Love, is in stores tomorrow, but the self titled debut of Fever Ray (side project of The Knife's Karin Elisabeth Dreijer Andersson) is my favorite new release of the week. From what I... more info

Allmusic Blog — King Decemberist Colin Meloy’s love for the heydays of British folk-rock has always served as the foundation on which he builds his crafty, idiosyncratic chamber pop, but on The Hazards of Love he’s taken that bedrock and built his own version of... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The Decemberists fifth album, The Hazards of Love, is in stores tomorrow, but the self titled debut of Fever Ray (side project of The Knife's Karin Elisabeth Dreijer Andersson) is my favorite new release of the week. From what... more info

Buzzgrinder — With The Hazards of Love, The Decemberists are back with a seventeen-song monster of an album. Frontman Colin Meloy originally wrote it as a rock opera of sorts based on a fairy tale of his own devising. The band even considered performing it as a s... more info

VH1 News — Lollapalooza has yet to announce its remaining headliners, but rumor has it, the Killers and Tool will take the last two top slots. more info

Chorus.fm — Colin Meloy (*The Decemberists (http://www.myspace.com/thedecemberists)*) has called for (http://twitter.com/colinmeloy) a mass "e-Mooning" of Pitchfork. more info

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MTV.com News — Gigs from Kanye West, Jane's Addiction, Metallica and more were highlights of our week in Austin.By James Montgomery Perez Hilton, Kid Cudi, Victoria Hesketh and Kanye West at SXSW 2009 Photo: Rahav Segev/WireImage How does one summarize r... more info

The Mix Tape Podcast — The Decemberists’ The Hazards of Love doesn’t care if you don’t like opera. Daunting to start this multi-arced epic story, it very quickly rewards with such usual trademarks as harpsichord and frontman Colin Meloy’s cry... more info

The Mix Tape Podcast — The Hazards Of Love 4 (The Drowned) - The Decemberists / YSIRead Our WORD 100 Album Review Here... more info