The Crane Wife

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The Crane Wife
Studio album by The Decemberists

Publication
(s)

October 3, 2006

admission

April - June 2006

Label (s) Capitol Records

Format (s)

CD, LP

Genre (s)

Indie rock , folk rock

Title (number)

10

running time

60 min 15 sec

occupation
  • Backing Vocal, Keyboard : Christopher Walla
  • Backing vocal, percussion, drums : John Moen
  • Backing Vocal: Ezra Holbrook

production

Tucker Martine, Christopher Walla, The Decemberists

Studio (s)

Kung Fu Bakery, Portland , Oregon

chronology
Picaresque
(2005) 		The Crane Wife The Hazards of Love
(2009)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
The Crane Wife
  US 35 10/21/2006 (13 weeks)
Singles
The Perfect Crime # 2
  US 4th 10/13/2007 (5 weeks)

The Crane Wife is the fourth studio album by the American indie folk band The Decemberists . It was released on October 3, 2006 in the USA on Capitol Records . It was produced by Tucker Martine and Christopher Walla ( Death Cab for Cutie ). The Crane Wife is based on a Japanese folk tale. The album focuses on two songs, The Crane Wife and The Island , the latter being inspired by William Shakespeare's The Tempest .

The album art was created by Carson Ellis , Colin Meloy's wife.

action

The Crane Wife is an old Japanese legend. A poor man finds an injured crane, takes it home and nurses it back to health. After he releases the crane, a woman comes to his front door. He falls in love with the woman and marries her a little later. Since they are both very poor, his wife offers to sew miraculous dresses from silk and sell them at the market - but only if he promises never to watch her make them. The clothes sell well and the man demands that his wife weave more than before. The more his greed for wealth increases, the worse his wife is. One day he watches her making the clothes. However, it is not his wife who is sitting at the loom, but a crane plucking out its own feathers. When he sees the man, he flies away and never comes back.

Colin Meloy heard the story and decided to write music for it.

Track list

  1. The Crane Wife, Pt. 3 - 4:18
  2. The Island - 12:26
    1. Come and see
    2. The Landlord's Daughter
    3. You'll Not Feel the Drowning
  3. Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) (duet with Laura Veirs ) - 4:18
  4. O Valencia! - 3:47
  5. The Perfect Crime # 2 - 5:33
  6. When the War Came - 5:06
  7. Shankill Butchers - 4:39
  8. Summersong - 3:31
  9. The Crane Wife 1 and 2 - 11:19
  10. Sons & Daughters - 5:13

Bonus tracks

  1. After the Bombs ( iTunes bonus track) - 5:04
  2. Culling of the Fold (Tower Records Bonustrack) - 4:24
  3. The Perfect Crime # 1 + The Day I Knew You'd Not Come Back ( Starbucks Bonus Track) - 15:17
  4. Hurdles Even Here (Starbucks bonus track) - 4:31

Reviews

The Crane Wife was very well received by many critics. The album's metascore is currently at 84%. National Public Radio listeners voted The Crane Wife the best album of 2006. In the prestigious Pitchfork Media list of the best albums of the year, it was ranked 41. By December 2008, the album had sold 284,000 copies in the United States.

Others

The song The Crane Wife, Pt. 3 has been played in various series episodes and commercials:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts US
  2. ↑ metacritic.com: The Decemberists: The Crane Wife (2006)
  3. ↑ npr.org: NPR Listeners Pick the Best CDs of 2006
  4. ↑ Jonathan Cohen: Decemberists Back In 'Love' On New Album. In: Billboard . October 12, 2008, accessed September 24, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Boardsmag.com: AT&T drums up support for team USA ( Memento from July 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), April 14, 2009, see “Credits” - Show more credits

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