Colin Meloy

This follows an artificial companion named Klara who forms a profound bond with a sickly girl who brings her home while observing the complicated world of humans.

Also on 20- on the 23rd, we have Wildwood hitting theaters based on the book by Colin Meloy.

This fantasy adventure follows a young girl who enters a mysterious wilderness who [lip smack] to rescue her kidnapped baby brother.

Um, on the 30th, we have The Mosquito Bowl in theaters based on Buzz Bissinger's non-fiction book, The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II, which follows college football players sent to the Pacific during World War II, where their final football game becomes a haunting prelude to battle.

Uh, it's like if a bunch of literature nerds decided to make folk music, and I then pulled up a picture of them, and it's the one...

It's a fairly famous picture of them where, like, Colin's, like, holding flowers towards the picture, and they're all there, and he's like... yeah that's that seems pretty accurate that does look like a group of super nerdy people and i was like it is and like that is that is that is the description i gave and he just took it and he listened to it and he was like yeah that was really nerdy and i was like yeah absolutely i

think one of the biggest reasons i've never had to describe the decemberists because i live in portland

i wondered about that yeah we had a we had a

we'll talk about this record soon.

What I like about...

Colin's got a real strong connection to Minnesota because two of his favorite bands are Husker Du and The Replacements.

Bob Mould was in one of their...

It's about a girl and her friend who venture into an enchanted forest after the girl's infant brother is kidnapped by crows.

It's based on a novel by Colin Meloy, uh, the lead singer of The Decemberists.

That book was very successful.

And what sold me on Wildwood from the jump is that it is from Laika, the studio that brought us-

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Colin Meloy and Jenny Connie.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, Corn Tucker, who is, uh, my longtime friend and bandmate in Sleater-Kinney.