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16 Military Wives

Certain Songs #292: The Decemberists – “16 Military Wives”

August 25, 2015 by Jim Connelly

16 Military Wives Album: Picaresque
Year: 2005

Like a few others of their Pacific Northwest contemporaries that started around the turn of the century — Modest Mouse, Long Winters, Death Cab For Cutie, etc — I missed the very early Decemberists albums, not discovering them until they made an album that one way or another cut through the static.

In this case, that album was Picaresque, which started the pattern that I would love a couple of songs on every Decemberists album, but never an entire album from start to finish, with the exception was 2011’s R.E.M.-influenced The King is Dead.

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