Exclusive interview: Decemberists' singer-songwriter Colin Meloy
Andy Pareti
Issue date: 4/10/08 Section: Arts & Entertainment
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The Lamron: Tell me about the new solo album you have coming out. It seems to have a more laid back, informal feel to it. You even mention campfire sing-a-longs. Is that the vision you have about it?
Colin Meloy: Yea, I guess so. It's an opportunity to kind of strip away the arrangements of the records into kind of a sing-a-long.
The Lamron: The prior EPs you've released that cover other artists - is that kind of the same feel?
CM: Yea, definitely. It's just me. I recorded them at home, so, other than getting a few friends in to help out here and there, it's mostly just me compiling a little EP together at home.
The Lamron: Do you have any plans for a solo studio album?
CM: You know, it's crossed my mine, but I think if I were to do it, it would just be a Decemberists record, I mean, without the input of the four other people who are in the Decemberists. For now I think that everything that I write is sort of Decemberists material, so I don't see any reason to put the songs anywhere else.
The Lamron: On the upcoming album, you have a couple of previously unreleased songs. Did you write those with the intensions of playing them with the Decemberists or were they purely for yourself?
CM: I wrote them for myself - the one that really sticks out is the song "Wonder," which seems just like such a simple and personal song; I couldn't hear any arrangement over it. I think it's one of the only songs I've written that felt more like just a Colin Meloy song and not a Decemberists song.
The Lamron: While we're on the same track, is it alright if I ask you about "Dracula's Daughter"? [editor's note - "Dracula's Daughter" is Meloy's self-proclaimed worst song he's ever written]
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