The Decemberists are back with “All I Want Is You,” an “unapologetic love song” and the latest single from their upcoming album. As it always was, so it will be again.
A simple song featuring finger-picked acoustic guitar and rich vocal harmonies, “All I Want Is You” is an anthem-like ode to sincere love, culminating when a soft bed of brass enters beneath the gentle delivery of the title by Colin Meloy. refrain.
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Speaking about the song, Meloy said: “'All I Want Is You' is a love song. A love song without regrets that you wear on your sleeve. I don’t write many of those, at least not in this sense.”
Next, Meloy offered some insight into the origins of the new single. “The song came out of the finger-picking pattern—'I don't want pretty poses…'—and I just followed that example,” she said. “In the end, it just wrote itself. It's so basic that it lived for a long time in my composition notebook, sort of hidden, before I worked up the courage to publish it. It shares a title and hook with many previous songs, but I like to think I'm simply adding my own version of that tradition.”
stream “All I Want Is You” below.
Like an everything, As it always was, so it will be again, will be out June 14 via YABB Records (Thirty Tigers). Earlier this year, the band ended their six-year hiatus by sharing the album's singles “Burial Ground” and the nearly 20-minute long “Joan in the Garden.” Pre-orders for the album are in progress.
Meanwhile, The Decemberists' 2024 tour kicks off later this month and will take the band to cities like Brooklyn, Atlanta, Los Angeles and more. Check their upcoming dates and get tickets here.
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