Sonic Chaos

So last weekend, I put The Hazards Of Love on the iPod on while mowing the lawn.  It was a dull roar underneath the noise of the lawn mower, only coming clear when I stopped to empty the bag.  For some reason it made me listen closer to the sections that I heard clearly and gave me further appreciation for this latest release by the Decemberists.  This week I put the same album on the iPod while sitting in the dentists chair for quite a while.  Again I was only hearing samples of it when the drill was off otherwise it was all just a sonic chaos mixture of music, drill noise and stress.  Somehow it seemed fitting.

I am really enjoying this album and it’s been in constant rotation for a few weeks now.  It’s not one that is easily listen to in parts, it is mean to be taken as a whole.  I am planning on seeing them in Portland this summer and I’ve read that the first set of the show is the whole album from start to finish.