Decemberists Go For Tumbling Visuals!

Latest, acclaimed, album gets "reinvented" as a video album to be released via iTunes. See trailer, below.

By Blurt Staff

The Decemberists' recent album - some pundits are calling it an "epic song cycle," while the BLURT reviewer simply said "it stands up to the best" of rock's classic thematic records - The Hazards Of Love gets reinvented as a full-length video album now: Here Come The Waves: The Hazards Of Love Visualized is  released on December 1 exclusively through iTunes.

Here Come The Waves, which was debuted live in Los Angeles in October to rave reviews, is a collaboration with four filmmakers - Guilherme Marcondes, Julia Pott, Peter Sluszka and Santa Maria - each of whom created original animation to accompany a section of the music. The animations were produced by Flux and Hornet.

Check out the brief teaser trailer below.

What's interesting are some of the comments that have already been posted by fans at YouTube (go HERE), among them "One of the best shows I have EVER seen, and that says a lot. This was seriously amazing, I can't stop thinking about it!" and "This is going to be so amazing i cant wait until december!" (Actually the "If anyone sneaked a video past the security people, please post it!" comment is pretty cool too... but we digress...)

Anyway, Billboard has already weighed in, calling it "a stunning new ‘visualizer' of four seamlessly-sequenced psychedelic videos inspired by the album's different acts," adding that "the visuals function as impressionistic landscapes and atmospheres evocative of the unfolding drama like a richly imagined liquid lightshow." And the Los Angeles Times gushed, "a tumbling series of visuals with four distinct aesthetic styles. Peter Sluszka's ultra-slow motion capture of exploding mushrooms and elegantly disseminating seed pods... Julia Pott's line art of wolves and foxes hovering in geometric constellations... Guilherme Marcondes' renderings of skeletons caught among leafless branches and verdant human arms that unfurl like ferns... Santa Maria provides context...with cosmic, computer-generated vistas, cartoons of splintering bones."

Hey, we are all about tumbling series of visuals! This might be the best reason all year to get on iTunes... meanwhile, next stop: Tales From Topographic Oceans: The Broadway Play...