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The Crane Wives (Music)
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The Crane Wives are an indie folk band from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Their musical style is a strange mix of Indie Rock and Folk Rock, with heavy use of unusual instruments and vocal harmonies.Their name is a Shout-Out to a Decemberists album, which is what lead to their fame; while being interviewed by NPR, Colin Meloy noticed a copy of their debut album and its band name, and took a photo with it, leading to a huge surge in interest in their music.Members Emilee Petersmark (guitar/vocals) Kate Pillsbury (guitar/vocals) Dan Rickabus (drums/vocals) Ben Zito (bass) Tom Gunnells (banjo; left in 2015)Studio Discography Safe Ship, Harbored (2011) The Fool in Her Wedding Gown (2012) Coyote Stories (2015) Foxlore (2016)Live Discography Live from River City Studios Here I Am: Live from the Listening Room (2020) dogtownstudio recordings (2023) | |
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Protest Song | |
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Protest Song: "The Hand That Feeds" is an anti-capitalism song. | |
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Daddy's Girl | |
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Daddy's Girl: The singer of "The Hand That Feeds" idolises her father, who taught her the anti-capitalist ideals the song revolves around. | |
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Poor Communication Kills | |
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Poor Communication Kills: According to invokedWord of God, "The Well" is about "how withholding the truth to spare someone pain can create resentment and pain for both people". | |
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Crapsack World | |
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The protagonist of "Counting Sheep" takes medication and smiles while living in a Crapsack World to hide their true rebellious sentiments. | |
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Walking the Earth | |
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Walking the Earth: Used as a metaphor in "The Hand That Feeds" to describe the relentless progression of time. | |
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Mindless Sheep | |
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Mindless Sheep: "Counting Sheep" is about living as a Stepford Smiler in a dystopia and compares those who show Blind Obedience to the totalitarian leaders to sheep. | |
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Changing Chorus | |
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Changing Chorus: In "Safe Ship, Harbored", the singer discusses how their Safety in Indifference worldview came about through a chorus that changes towards the end of the song. | |
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Safety in Indifference | |
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Safety in Indifference: "Safe Ship, Harbored" is centered around the singer encouraging their love interest to leave them out of a desire to Never Be Hurt Again. | |
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Chronic Self-Deprecation | |
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Chronic Self-Deprecation: "Never Love An Anchor" revolves around the singer's self-loathing having forced her to sabotage a possible relationship. | |
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Parental Love Song | |
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Parental Love Song: A variant. "Never Love an Anchor" is about a parent giving their child up for adoption, knowing that they couldn't care for the child in their current position and that their child would live a terrible life if they kept them. | |
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Grow Old with Me | |
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Grow Old with Me: The singer expresses this sentiment with their love interest in "New Discovery". | |
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Cynicism Catalyst | |
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Cynicism Catalyst: The singer of "Safe Ship, Harbored" describes that their Safety in Indifference attitude was caused by past trauma, in that "something", or rather, "someone wore [them] down". | |
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Working-Class Hero | |
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Working-Class Hero: The dirt poor anti-capitalist protagonist of "The Hand That Feeds": | |
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Canary in a Coal Mine | |
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Canary in a Coal Mine: "Canary in a Coal Mine" is built on this — it's sung from the point of view of the canary, begging the miners to not forget how she saved their lives at the cost of her own. | |
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Dysfunction Junction | |
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Dysfunction Junction: Discussed in "Hard Sell", where the singer wonders if they are the only one to be close to breaking down, and eventually surmises that everyone should open up about their struggles. | |
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Stepford Smiler | |
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Stepford Smiler: The protagonist of "Counting Sheep" takes medication and smiles while living in a Crapsack World to hide their true rebellious sentiments. "Hard Sell" revolves around the singer struggling with their mental health and trying to find "a fresh new start buried underneath". | |
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Capitalism Is Bad | |
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Capitalism Is Bad: The message of "The Hand That Feeds" is that capitalism promises workers "the great American ruse" while exploiting them in turn, until they are too tired to fight the system and become cogs in the machine, and the workers have nothing left to lose by taking care of and standing up for themselves. | |
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Careful with That Axe | |
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Careful with That Axe: An impressive example from "The Garden": | |
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Solar and Lunar | |
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Solar and Lunar: "The Moon Will Sing" is a breakup song built around the singer comparing themself to the Moon and their abusive loved one to the Sun: | |
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Break-Up Song | |
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Break-Up Song: One romantic interpretation of "The Moon Will Sing" is that the singer is lamenting the "ten years of dust and neglect" they spent with their toxic ex. | |
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Determined Defeatist | |
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Determined Defeatist: Implied. The protagonist of "Counting Sheep" lives under some sort of totalitarian society of a Crapsack World; they are aware of it and are "waiting for something", but are feigning fitting in with the social order because they know showing open resistance is futile. | |
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Wanderlust Song | |
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Wanderlust Song: "New Discovery" uses discovering unexplored and exotic lands as a metaphor for a romantic relationship. | |
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Run or Die | |
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Run or Die: "Rockslide" is about hearing a rockslide "from the peak" and advising those around oneself to run for one's life lest "the Devil we will meet". | |
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Jade-Colored Glasses | |
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Jade-Colored Glasses: The protagonist of "Pretty Little Things" is cynical and distrustful towards their new love interest after being "used up" and "ruined" by her past toxic exes. | |
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Break His Heart to Save Him | |
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Break His Heart to Save Him: "Never Love An Anchor" is a interesting example of this; its self-loathing protagonist loved someone, but believed they would be too bad of a person to be in a healthy relationship, so drove them away on purpose. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: As noted, they are named after an album by The Decemberists. | |
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Fear Song | |
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Fear Song: The romantic interpretation of "Never Love An Anchor" is about the protagonist being too afraid of hurting their lover to enter into a romantic relationship. | |
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Genre Mashup | |
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Genre Mashup: Their own description probably summarises it best: | |
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Broken Bird | |
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Broken Bird: "Pretty Little Things" is sung from the perspective of a jaded lover who refuses to trust her new love interest until they've earned it after being mistreated by her exes. | |
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Mortality Phobia | |
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Mortality Phobia: Alluded to in "The Hand that Feeds": | |
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Counting Sheep | |
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Counting Sheep: Discussed in "Counting Sheep", where the singer comments that those who don't show Blind Obedience to the totalitarian leaders can stop doing this while trying to sleep at night, "'cause you'll get your fill of [sheep] during the daytime". | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
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Lyrical Dissonance: Many of their songs are quite cheerful and jaunty-sounding. Their lyrics, on the other hand… | |
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Public Execution | |
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Public Execution: "Counting Sheep", being about living under a totalitarian dictatorship or equivalent, opens with a hanging in the morning news. | |
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Idiot Crows | |
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Idiot Crows: A rare western example in "The Garden": | |
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Animal Motifs | |
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Animal Motifs: The singer of the "The Hand That Feeds" compares herself to an abused dog. | |
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Love Martyr | |
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Love Martyr: "Tongues and Teeth" has the singer tell her love interest that about how she is destructive and that they should only pursue her if they don't mind that. | |
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Garden of Eden | |
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Garden of Eden: "The Garden"'s references to the titular garden and its accursed apple tree are likely allusions to this. | |
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A Deadly Affair | |
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A Deadly Affair: In "I Ain't Done", the singer sneaks out while her spouse is asleep to sleep with her lover, only to be found out by her spouse one night, resulting in both the singer and her lover being murdered that night. In the afterlife, singer declares that she has no regrets for being "a woman in love" and has all the time in the world to repent if she has to. | |
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Haunted House | |
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Haunted House: Used as a metaphor for trauma in "The Garden" and "Curses". | |
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The Dog Bites Back | |
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The Dog Bites Back: The central idea of "The Hand that Feeds": | |
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