Hazards Of Love

News of the new Decemberists album. [via The Decemberists]

We Decemberists are pleased to announce that our forthcoming LP, The Hazards of Love, is, in the parlance of the industry, “in the can^[2]“. Four tumultuous months passed in the creation of the record, during which a new president was selected^[3], 3 people associated with the band were married^[4], birthdays too numerous to recount were celebrated and many tasty asada tacos from two of the vast array of taco trucks in the greater Portland east-side were consumed. And what do we have to show for it? Or at least that we can now reveal to you? A release date and a tracklist! As follows:

Release Date: March 24th^[5] in the U.S. and March 23th^[6] in the UK.^[7]

Tracklist:

1. Prelude
2. The Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won’t Wrestle the Thistles Undone)
3. A Bower Scene
4. Won’t Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga)
5. The Hazards of Love 2 (Wager All)
6. The Queen’s Approach
7. Isn’t it a Lovely Night?
8. The Wanting Comes in Waves / Repaid
9. An Interlude
10. The Rake’s Song
11. The Abduction of Margaret
12. The Queen’s Rebuke / The Crossing
13. Annan Water
14. Margaret in Captivity
15. The Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge!)
16. The Wanting Comes in Waves (Reprise)
17. The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned)

Can’t wait.

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Quick Links

Tests! Many tests! Well, actually, only two, but it’s bad enough. That means that I’m kind of busy, but there are some links I want to put up.

Be Kind Rewind

Scientists have found an enzyme that reverses the unwinding of DNA (or, to be less fancy, rewinds strands of DNA). [via Science Daily] They call it an annealing helicase, and this basically opens up a whole new branch of enzymes for study.

Cow!

Cow Rilakkuma. [via poupéegirl]

New Decemberists Song

These are the lyrics to O New England, a new song by the Decemberists from their Always The Bridesmaid singles. [via LyricWiki] I found them quite beautiful.

David?

David Hasslehoff advertises for Red Alert 3. [via Conquer This Life] Hmm…

Ghost Dad

[via pictures for sad children]

Charts

Michael Lewy has produced some rather strange and depressing charts… [via io9]

You’ve Got Mail

New Gmail features. [via Gmail]

Gradius In LittleBigPlanet

Here:

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[via Kotaku]

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