Spin control: Album reviews

ROCK | The Decemberists, "The Hazards of Love" (Capitol) Ask Colin Meloy about the reference points for the fifth album by his Portland, Ore.-based chamber-pop band and he'll cite a host of obscure folk-rock inspirations from the '60s (among them Nic Jones, Shirley Collins and Anne Briggs, whose 1966 EP inspired the title of this disc). But the truth is that the Decemberists have spent much of their career trying to make a better concept album/rock opera/song cycle than Jethro Tull's 1972 clas...

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