"Colin's kind of holed up working..."

An interview with Decemberists drummer John Moen. (Pitchfork)

Pitchfork: It seems like things with the Decemberists have come to a lull. Is this the calm before another storm of activity?

JM: Yes, we've got a bunch going on, actually. There are things we spent some time recording earlier this spring. I don't know how the release will go with that; it was more fun for us, maybe songs that wouldn't fit into the next record so much, things that have been lying around. I can't actually speak to how that will format itself. But at the end of July, we start working on a full record, and that'll be a lot of fun.

Pitchfork: Are those songs written already?

JM: As far as I know. Colin's kind of holed-up working, as far as I can tell.

Pitchfork: Is there another big concept to this album?

JM: Maybe!