2. The Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle the Thistles Undone)
3. A Bower Scene
4. Won't Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga)
5. The Hazards of Love 2 (Wager All)
6. The Queen's Approach
7. Isn't it a Lovely Night?
8. The Wanting Comes in Waves / Repaid
9. An Interlude
10. The Rake's Song
11. The Abduction of Margaret
12. The Queen's Rebuke / The Crossing
13. Annan Water
14. Margaret in Captivity
15. The Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge!)
16. The Wanting Comes in Waves (Reprise)
17. The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned)
The Decemberists' Hazards of Love, their second album for major label Capitol, is something of a rock opera about a girl named Margaret, her lover William, a lecherous rake, and a scary forest queen. So, basically, it's only slightly weird for the Decemberists.
Hazards is the follow-up to the Portland band's The Crane Wife, an album based on a Japanese folk tale, and features 17 songs and guest appearances from Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond, Jim James, and Robyn Hitchcock. The band had initially hoped to stage the album as a play, but lead singer Colin Meloy decided it was unstageable. Instead, the band has mentioned doing a tour where they play the album front to back.
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