HER MAJESTY

At first listen, The Decemberist's Her Majesty isn't an album I'd put forward for the prog folk category. The band's roots in the indie folk scene are very apparent throughout this baroque and occasionally twee album, and a cursory early listen didn't suggest much to me which was progressive about it. But on repeated listens I find that the band do succeed in building in little quirks and twists here and there which taken as a whole are suggestive of their more ambitious and experimental works. If this were an indie rock site I'd give it three and a half stars, but this is progarchives so three stars is the best I can do.