WHAT A TERRIBLE...The Decemberists belatedly embraced their indie pop sensibilities (or at very least their fondness for R. E. M.) on 2011's The King Is Dead, and were rewarded with a number one chart placing and the group's greatest commercial success to date, leading some to wonder if Colin Meloy and his bandmates were going to go for more hooks or return to the more ornate sound of their earlier work now that they had a large audience waiting for the follow up. As