Her Majesty the Decemberists
Occupation
- Viola: Bridget Callahan
- Electric bass, double bass, percussion Jesse Emerson
- Electric guitar, pedal steel guitar, Hawaiian guitar, resonator guitar, synthesizer, percussion: Chris Funk
- Vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion, lyrics, Colin Meloy
- Clapping: Kenneth Erlick
- Harmonica: Dave Lipkind
- Organ, electronic piano, Piano, Accordion, Backing Vocals, Percussion: Jenny Conlee
- Drums, backing vocal, percussion, vibraphone, glockenspiel, organ: Rachel Blumberg
- Trumpet, Trombone, Clapping: Cory Gray
- Violin: Emily Cox, Lucy Atkinson
- Cello: Mike Lah
Her Majesty the Decemberists (often just called Her Majesty ) is the second studio album by the American band The Decemberists. It was published on Kill Rock Stars on September 9, 2003. The song Song for Myla Goldberg was some years before, written by Colin Meloy as he went along with the author Myla Goldberg as a media companion for her first book Bee Season on book tour. The song The Bachelor and the Bride includes the words "stripped bare" ( " bare naked " ) in the chorus, an allusion to Marcel Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even ( in German: The green box).
The album cover was done by artist Carson Ellis, the former girlfriend and current wife of Colin Meloy, who was responsible for all the album art of the band.
Title list
Note: In some versions of the album is missing on the back for song The Chimbley sweep in the title list.
Reviews
The Alternative Press described the album as " haunting ", Pitchfork praised the band due to the album as one of the most powerful of our time and awarded 8.2 out of a possible ten points. Josh model from A.V. Club praised its " wonderful, sometimes fantastic stories " show, which tells the album. The U.S. music magazine Blender, however, was less convinced of the album and compared the voice Meloys with a donkey.