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〕 |rev2 = ''Blender'' |rev2score = 〔() 〕 |rev3 = Robert Christgau |rev3score = (C)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Decemberists )〕 |rev4 = Consequence of Sound |rev4score = 〔() 〕 |rev5 = Drowned in Sound |rev5score = 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love )〕 |rev6 = Gigwise.com |rev6score = 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Decemberists - 'The Hazards of Love' (Rough Trade) )〕 |rev7 = ''The Observer'' |rev7score = |rev8 = Pitchfork Media |rev8score = (5.7/10)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Decemberists: The Hazards of Love )〕 |rev9 = PopMatters |rev9score = (8/10)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Decemberists: The Hazards of Love )〕 |rev10 = ''Rolling Stone |rev10score = 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Hazards Of Love )〕 |rev11 = ''The Skinny'' |rev11score = 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love )〕 |rev12 = ''Spin'' |rev12score = 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Decemberists, 'The Hazards of Love' (Capital) )〕 |rev13 = Sputnikmusic |rev13score = 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love (staff review) )〕 |rev14 = Tiny Mix Tapes |rev14score = 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love )〕 |rev15 = Under the Radar |rev15score = (6/10)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Hazards of Love )〕 }} ''The Hazards of Love'' is the fifth album by the American indie rock band The Decemberists, released through Capitol Records and Rough Trade in 2009. The album was inspired by an Anne Briggs EP titled ''The Hazards of Love''. According to the band, frontman Colin Meloy had set out to write a song with the album's title, which eventually developed into an entire album. Becky Stark (of Lavender Diamond), Shara Worden (of My Brightest Diamond), and Jim James (of My Morning Jacket) provide guest vocals throughout the album, while Robyn Hitchcock makes a cameo guitar appearance on "An Interlude". ''The Hazards of Love'' is a rock opera, with all songs contributing to a unified narrative, similar to the use of recurring stories on the band's previous album, ''The Crane Wife''. The plot is a love story: a woman named Margaret (voiced by Stark) falls in love with a shape-shifting boreal forest dweller named William (voiced by Meloy). William's mother, the jealous Forest Queen (voiced by Worden), and the villainous Rake (also voiced by Meloy) bring conflict to the album's story arc.〔 ==Plot== While riding through the taiga, Margaret finds an injured fawn. When she stops to help it, the fawn changes into a young man named William, and the two make love ("The Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle the Thistles Undone)"). Margaret soon learns she is pregnant ("A Bower Scene") and flees to the forest to find William ("Won't Want for Love (Margaret in the Taiga)"). William comes to Margaret and proclaims his love for her ("The Hazards of Love 2 (Wager All)"), but a short, mysterious instrumental announces the threat of William's mother, the Forest Queen ("The Queen's Approach") and the end of the first act. William and Margaret reminisce about their first meeting and anticipate the birth of their child ("Isn't It a Lovely Night?") when they are discovered by the Forest Queen. William begs the Queen to allow him to be with Margaret, but the Queen accuses him of being ungrateful, pointing out that she rescued him from the human world when he was a baby and bestowed on him immortality. Their exchange continues until the Queen resolves to allow William one night as a mortal man with Margaret, but afterwards reclaim him forever ("The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid"). Another short instrumental ("An Interlude") marks the end of the second act. Elsewhere, we meet the Rake, a widower and philanderer who feels no remorse at having murdered his three children in order to be rid of the responsibility of raising them ("The Rake's Song"). He kidnaps Margaret ("The Abduction of Margaret"), and then the Forest Queen ruthlessly breaks her promise by inviting the Rake to violate Margaret and assists his escape from William by parting a raging river ("The Queen's Rebuke/The Crossing"). William arrives at the river but is unable to cross until he offers his own life in exchange for safe passage ("Annan Water"). The Rake gloats over Margaret, while she calls for William to rescue her ("Margaret in Captivity"). Before the Rake can strike, the ghosts of his three murdered children appear ("The Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge!)"). William arrives and escapes with Margaret ("The Wanting Comes in Waves (Reprise)"), but, as they approach the river, the lovers vow to marry each other by drowning themselves in the river while William is still a mortal man. As they sink into the water, William and Margaret proclaim their love a final time, reflecting that, in death, "the hazards of love" can no longer trouble them ("The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned)"). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Hazards of Love」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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