The Decemberists - "O' Valencia!"

[oscillations.]

Has already garnered a decent amount of spins on left-leaning Alt. stations, but officially goes for adds March 5th.

This will probably be the single that brings the band a wider audience.

The video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kksGxlJsUFQ

The Crane Wife is out now & is popularly considered one of the best albums of 2006.
www.metacritic.com/music/artists/decemberists/cranewife

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

Awesome! It's the song that got my attention and is now spending its second week (going on to third this weekend, more than likely) at #1 on my personal chart. I love their CD too!

[Pipa]

Finally heard this. It's extremely boring.

[oscillations.]

If only Colin Meloy were less of an intellectual pansy.
If he learned some killer Live riffs, he might be able to save himself from the dumpster of obscurity.

[Nicholas2.0]

When the record was being spun in-store all the time for a couple weeks there back in the fall, I didn't much care for most of the album, but grew to like Track 6, I think it was, because somehow Colin's singing voice reminded me of Brian's from Placebo.

[Chato]

Nice! I hope some active leaning stations give this a shot, too.

[joker]

Cool band, good album, nice song. Hope it does well.