Live at the Metro Theatre, Sydney. Hailing from Portland, Oregon The Decemberists made their first Australian pilgrimage in 2010 on the back of their 2009 release (The Hazards Of Love), the follow-up to their 2006 breakthrough, The Crane Wife - and we were there to capture it. From their debut, Castaways and Cutouts, in 2002, and its follow-up Her Majesty only a year later, the band have been defined by their eccentricities from the beginning. Producing 18-minute songs, tangled narratives, and featuring accordions, cellos, Wurlitzers, bouzoukis and hurdy-gurdies, The Decemberists are no ordinary band.