The Decemberists aren’t pulling any punches with their new album title – or perhaps it’s a tongue in cheek salute to The Smiths? The King Is Dead comes out on January 11th, and features REM’s Peter Buck as a guest on three of the album’s tracks.  The follow up to 2009’s Hazards of Love is their sixth studio album. If you head over to their website, you can give them your email address and get a new song for free. http://decemberists.com/ The track listing runs:

1. Don’t Carry It All
2. Calamity Song
3. Rise to Me
4. Rox in the Box
5. January Hymn
6. Down By the Water
7. All Arise!
8. June Hymn
9. This Is Why We Fight
10. Dear Avery

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