#the decemberists

[laikaspotlight]

Wildwood test animation

The General will be voiced by Angela Basset!

EDIT: Wildwood is set for theatrical release on October 23, 2026!

[arden-in-the-garden]

I had a dream last night that the Decemberists guy put out a new song that was him announcing the band was breaking up, but the song was also his like detailing his future career path, and it was an excruciatingly granular 13.5 minutes of him explaining to us in detail that he was going to become a world renowned marionette maker and like the steps he was going to take to complete this (step 1 was learn to spin flax to make his own cord, step 2 was learn whittling to create his own puppets, step 3 to make his own paints, etc etc. He was going for that vertical slice sort of thing) All the while someone was shouting in the background I DON'T WANNA BREAK UP and WHO'S GOING TO GET MY ACCORDION because apparently there was a custody battle happening for that?? But as it turned out the song was too much of a banger and people wouldn't let them quit and also he had like horrible arthritis in his hands that was preventing him from making the shit so they announced within the week that the band was actually back together and The Marionette Maker's Heart's Desire was like their new #1 hit

[kittyoperas]

the prettiest whistles won't wrestle the thistles undone .

[lucybellwood]

A watercolor commission from a few years back featuring some requested Decemberists lyrics!

[jackpendarvis]

From last night at the Ford Center on the University of Mississippi campus, here's a live performance of "Blue Magic," I song I wrote that was used in the Adventure Time episode "Winter Light." The tiny, blurry figure on the right of the screen is me playing accordion. Featuring Jon Langford (whose band the Mekons made an appearance in Distant Lands: Wizard City) and Kelly Hogan, the singer you may know as the blue ice fox with a string of pearls. The guitarist is Taylor... whose last name I will supply later. I'm old and can't remember! Kelly met him while mentoring a group (along with Jenny Conlee of the Decemberists, who played my accordion!) in the artists residency a few years ago for the Sarah Isom Center at the University of Mississippi. Masterful video by Ace Atkins.

[birdbrain-embry]

The Decemberists are so funny like here's a song about gay sex and here's a song about a man's insane, life-ruining quest to avenge his mother who died of tuberculosis and one of them is an absolute banger and one of them is the most emotionally devastating thing you've ever heard. Guess which one is which. No, go on, guess. Also we're putting them right next to each other in the album

[laikaspotlight]

Meet Owl Rex!

The Crown Prince of the Avian Principality, this wise old bird couldn’t give two hoots for the messy machinations of Man. What Owl Rex wants is for peace to return to the woods.

[karinhart]

and there she came upon a white and wounded fawn singing oh, the hazards of love