“Oh No!” by The Decemberists

"Oh No!" comes from the Decemberists' As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again, which arrived in June 2024, and Colin Meloy wrote the whole thing himself, words and music, before handing it to a band that treats an arrangement like a costume trunk. Kelly Pratt brings saxophone, trumpet and tuba; Jenny Conlee piles on accordion, organ, piano, vibraphone and synth; Chris Funk moves between banjo, mandolin, pedal steel and electric guitar.

Underneath all that, Nate Query switches between double bass and electric bass, John Moen drums with Miguel Bernal and Wolfgang Melz adding percussion, and Meloy plays acoustic and electric guitar and sings lead, with Elizabeth Ellison on backing vocals. Tucker Martine co-produced with the band, recorded and mixed it, and the whole thing plays like a brassy romp that knows exactly how much fun it's having.

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