The Decemberists I'll Be Your Girl

3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he highlight may be 'Rusalka, Rusalka/The Wild Rushes' a bifurcated eight-minute prog-folk-rock ballad about a moony young lover following a siren's song to a watery grave. It's what might be labeled a Decemberists stock-in-trade, with no apologies needed."
"It's often fun to hear them go for it, as on the high-contrast drama of 'Cutting Stone' and severe lead single 'Severed.'"
Paste (magazine) - "[With] the macabre-sounding 'Cutting Stone,' a prototypical-sounding Decemberists murder ballad that is carried off on synth waves into the land of Nicolas Winding Refn soundtracks."