Get your jazz hands ready! Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy has told Rolling Stone that his band’s fifth album, Hazards of Love, is probably going to be described as a “rock opera.” The hour-long narrative suite is said to be a “twisty, fantastical story about a woman named Margaret who is ravaged by a shape-shifting animal; her lover, William, who is desperate for the two of them to be reunited; a forest queen; and a villainous rake.” Although plans for director Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening) to stage the musical were sadly canceled, the Decemberists’ spring tour will feature the band playing the entire album straight through.

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