Hazards Of Love

The Hazards of Love is the fifth album by the American indie rock band the Decemberists, released through Capitol Records and Rough Trade in 2009. The album was inspired by an Anne Briggs EP titled The Hazards of Love. According to the band, frontman Colin Meloy had set out to write a song with the album's title, which eventually developed into an entire album. Becky Stark, Shara Nova, and Jim James provide guest vocals throughout the album, while Robyn Hitchcock makes a cameo guitar appearance on "An Interlude". The Hazards of Love is a concept album and rock opera, with all songs contributing to a unified narrative, similar to the use of recurring stories on the band's previous album, The Crane Wife. The plot is a love story: a woman named Margaret falls in love with a shape-shifting boreal forest dweller named William. William's mother, the jealous Forest Queen, and the villainous Rake bring conflict to the album's story arc. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Haz...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)