The Decemberists have announced their eighth studio album, I’ll Be Your Girl. It’s out March 16 via Capitol Records. Below, listen to the lead single “Severed.” I’ll Be Your Girl is the follow-up to 2015’s What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World. The new LP was produced by John Congleton. “When you’ve been a band for 17 years, inevitably there are habits you fall into,” said Colin Meloy in a statement. “So our ambition this time was really just to get out of our comfort zone. That’s what prompted working with a different producer and using a different studio. We wanted to free ourselves from old patterns and give ourselves permission to try something different.”

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