The Decemberists Announce New Live Album “Live Home Library Vol. 2”, Share “O Valencia”

By: Staff –

The Decemberists have announced Live Home Library Vol. 2, the second installment in the band’s live series, to be released September 25, 2026 via the band’s own label, Youth and Beauty Brigade.

Recorded over three nights at Brooklyn Steel in Brooklyn, NY on April 17, 18, and 19, 2017, Live Home Library Vol. 2 captures the band in expansive, full-flight form at a particularly vivid moment in their history. At the time, Brooklyn Steel had been open for only a few weeks, reassembled from the bones of a former steel manufacturing plant in Brooklyn. The Decemberists’ three-night run was among the venue’s first shows.

Over the course of those three nights, The Decemberists covered every era of the band’s music up to that point, playing a total of 62 songs and repeating only nine of them on consecutive nights. This 2LP set collects fourteen tracks recorded across the full run, including “The Crane Wife 3,” “We Both Go Down Together,” “Red Right Ankle,” “Down By The Water,” “Los Angeles, I’m Yours,” “The Tain,” and “O Valencia!”

“These shows, to my ears, are the band at its very best with this lineup,” writes Colin Meloy in the album’s liner notes. “There’s a looseness, here, a kind of swaggery suredness.”

Mixed by longtime collaborator Tucker Martine, Live Home Library Vol. 2 will initially be available as a vinyl-exclusive double LP on two limited edition variants – a “Shiny Clear” vinyl, available directly from the band’s online store, and a “Ruby Red Right Ankle” vinyl, available at independent record stores, housed in a custom wide-spine jacket. 

Track Listing

Side A

1. The Crane Wife 3
2. The Island: Come And See/The Landlord’s Daughter/You’ll Not Feel The Drowning
3. We Both Go Down Together

Side B

1. Shiny
2. Red Right Ankle
3. Make You Better
4. June Hymn

Side C

1. Down By The Water
2. Lake Song
3. Los Angeles, I’m Yours
4. Till The Water’s All Gone
5. Bandit Queen

Side D

1. The Tain, Pt. I-V
2. O Valencia!