Colin Meloy's newly expanded crew set the bar high on the first day of South by Southwest.By James Montgomery, with additional reporting by Christopher "CJ" Smith and Matt Harper The Decemberists perform at Stubb's Bar-B-Q in Austin, Texas on Wednesday Photo: MTV News AUSTIN, Texas — When the Decemberists, hyper-literate indie laureates of the Pacific Northwest, made the leap to the majors in 2006, they responded to criticism from the holier-than-thous with The Crane Wife, a conceptual long-player based on a Japanese folk tale and stuffed to the gills with proggy jams and planetarium-ready organ solos.
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