{"id":625755,"date":"2026-10-09T21:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T21:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/625755\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T21:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T21:10:09","slug":"the-decemberists-premiere-first-song-in-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/625755\/","title":{"rendered":"The Decemberists Premiere First Song in Two Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would only make sense for Wildwood, an upcoming animated film based on the 2011 novel by Colin Meloy, to close with a song by <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/1043-the-decemberists\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Decemberists<\/a>. \u201cThe Better Part of Bravery\u201d is the folk group\u2019s first track in two years, following their 2024 LP, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/the-decemberists-as-it-ever-was-so-it-will-be-again\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again<\/a>. Give it a spin below.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWildwood has been part of my life for many years, and seeing the story transformed like this has been an extraordinary experience,\u201d Meloy said in a statement. \u201cWriting the song for the end credits gave me a chance to return to the world of Wildwood in a different way. There\u2019s something particularly meaningful about having music accompany the audience as they leave the forest and the story comes to a close.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Travis Knight\u2019s Wildwood\u2014featuring a voice cast of Peyton Elizabeth Lee, Jacob Tremblay, Carey Mulligan, Mahershala Ali, Angela Bassett, Tom Waits and Richard E. Grant, among others\u2014hits theaters October 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It would only make sense for Wildwood, an upcoming animated film based on the 2011 novel by Colin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,43,139,69,1249,307346,1251],"class_list":["post-625755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-textaboveleftsmall","tag-the-decemberists","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}