Cat Number: dechazards
Label: Rough Trade
Info correct on: 11/2/2009

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Released March 23rd

New album from the Portland, Oregon folksters. According to the press release "The Hazards Of Love tells the tale of a woman named Margaret who is ravaged by a shape-shifting animal; her lover, William; a forest queen; and a cold-blooded, lascivious rake...". Literary, ambitious and doubtless one of the albums of the year.

1. Prelude
2. The Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Wont Wrestle the Thistles Undone)
3. A Bower Scene
4. Wont Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga)
5. The Hazards of Love 2 (Wager All)
6. The Queens Approach
7. Isnt it a Lovely Night?
8. The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid
9. An Interlude
10. The Rakes Song
11. The Abduction of Margaret
12. The Queens 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)

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