Once upon a time, Portland indie rockers the Decemberists were an aesthetic unto themselves. They wrote grandly braying, ostentatiously literate sea shanties about people being swallowed by whales, threw themselves into their narratives in a way that recalls present-day podcast hosts more than indie rockers, and built themselves one of the largest cults in indie…
Stereogum — Once upon a time, Portland indie rockers the Decemberists were an aesthetic unto themselves. They wrote grandly braying, ostentatiously literate sea shanties about people... more info