"For two nights, November 6 and 7, local indie rock darlings The Decemberists performed with the Oregon Symphony. The concerts were part of the Oregon Symphony's Sounds Like Portland festival, celebrating the myriad artists that make Portland's music scene as vibrant as it is. This performance was the band's final stop on a miniature west-coast tour of "Decemberists Plus Your Local Symphony Orchestra," with prior stops in Seattle and San Francisco."
"Their colorful, instrumentally rich style of poetic indie-folk-rock as described above by Andrews invites comparison with other bands of the era: Neutral Milk Hotel, Arcade Fire, The Microphones, and The Mountain Goats, among others. All of these are distinct, but fans of one will find much to enjoy about the others. The Pet Sounds, Smile-era Beach Boys comparison is certainly apt, but some Decemberists songs remind me more of '80s alt-rock pioneers R.E.M. and The Smiths."
The Decemberists performed with the Oregon Symphony on November 6 and 7 as part of the Sounds Like Portland festival, concluding a west-coast run that included Seattle and San Francisco. Frontman Colin Meloy and multi-instrumentalist Jenny Conlee have appeared on the Portlandia television show, and the band often embodies a quirky, Pet Sounds–obsessed ethos. The band rose to prominence in the 2000s and early 2010s with releases on Kill Rock Stars, including Picaresque, The Crane Wife, The Hazards of Love, and The King Is Dead. The Decemberists' colorful, instrumentally rich, poetic indie-folk-rock invites comparisons to Neutral Milk Hotel, Arcade Fire, The Microphones, The Mountain Goats, R.E.M., and The Smiths.
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