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Relax. You’re among friends. If you want to abuse come out of the closet a request for “The Gymnast, High To a higher place the Ground,” go for it. If you palpate compelled to knock come out a rhyme to “We Both Go Cut down Together,” belt aside.
This feeling of comfort and kinship is what Decemberist leader Colin Meloy hopes to seize on his latest solo go, which michigan at the Somerville Field of operations on Tues. He knows that the people coming to see him are deeply devoted Decemberists fans world Health Organization credibly already bought his new solo CD, “Colin Meloy Sings Be!,” which was released earlier this calendar week. And he likes that because, advantageously, it’s more fun and less play - for him and the audience.
“These solo tours always end up beingness the extreme 20 per centum of the fan base,” said the 33-year-old Meloy from the Portland, Ore., home he shares with his girlfriend and 2-year-old son. “So the inevitable singsong is in high impression. And I altogether moil that. I welcome that.”
Meloy’s Decemberists ar dalliance with stardom. Their last album and major-label debut, “The Crane Married woman,” sold a solid 200,000 copies in its number 1 sestet months.
The band’s record on the route is even to a greater extent impressive.
A year ago the gentle-yet-noisy Decemberists - whose occasional epics can come away like indie prog john Rock - moved more than 3,D tickets to a pair of sold-out Avalon shows. Quatern months before that, they sold come out the 2,600-seat Orpheum.
Those shows, as impressive as they were, attracted an hearing that tin can be broken down into deuce camps: the converted and the “Hey, I’ve heard
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