The Mountain Goats

these guys are playing this i think?, btw

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Forgot to DVR, thx for the link, Morbs! New song is aces. I've turned one of the dudes in my office onto MGs lately, he'll be glad to hear this.

There are 2 different commercials running on TV that I swear steal the chord progression from Sax Rohmer #2

these guys are playing this i think?, btw

Breaking news! The lineup for Saturday's Rally for Women's Health has been announced, and you won't want to miss this fantastic program full of women's health advocates!

i love the mountain goats a lot

i hope Kathleen Turner & Gloria Steinem sing a duet

acc to MoveOn there is also an NYC "solidarity with Wisconsin" rally on Saturday, I wonder who's playing that?

"really enjoyed the new song! altho i was also pretty overwhelmed by the meta- ness of the moment ("let the camera / pull back" as I'm staring into the screen with laser focus; from california to iowa to letterman...)"

this is genius. what a great song choice.

i love the mountain goats a lot

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http://www.npr.org/2011/02/27/134056034/first-listen-the-mountain-goats-all-eternals-deck#playlist

All Eternals Deck streaming on NPR

my workday just got 1000x more bearable.

i really need to start bringing headphones to work

atm I really adore "Estate Sale Sign"

so excited y'all

btw, i don't think i said this yet in this thread, but another thing i enjoyed about the letterman appearance is that it gave me a chance to stretch music-fan muscles which have long been atrophying — internet/mp3/album leak era etc etc — it was super-fun to tune in and be like "oh boy, something from the new album!!"

((I guess this is something ppl have flapped their gums abt quite a bit already w/r/t the last 2 radiohead albums — the return of the 'event': album-event, fandom-event, etc. Letterman seems as good a place as any for such events!))

gonna listen to this today! & also want to say i am NOT anticipating the first negative review of the album that decides to make the obvious but super zzzzz-worthy pun: "All Eternals Dreck"

it sounds like you sorta are anticipating it tho

actually it no longer needs to be anticipated b/c i just preempted it outside the context of a negative review

do you see what i did there

((was gonna make another joke about the title but then I realized I had mixed up "decking" and "docking"))

i like the olympics-do-hildegard-von-bingen number

"sapphire trans am
high beams in vain
drive wild broncos
down the plain"

^damn

"high beams in rain" innit?

and yeah DJP, "estate sale sign" is the fuckin' jam (that part of me secretly hoped the whole album would sound like). the lyrics! the delivery! the drums! the strums! "EVERY MARTYR IN THIS JUNGLE / IS GONNA GET HIS WISH!!!"

"Age of Kings" is fucking incredible, I am dying over the strings

whole record

so great

so there's pretty much no graceful way of revealing this, but I did the vocal arrangement on "High Hawk Season" and am singing the middle part along with two of my college buddies (which is why I have refrained from commenting on that particular song, which on its surface should be total "DJP comments on this immediately" catnip)

!

woah! rad!

If you play the part backwards you hear Dan invoking Satan by saying "HI DERE WAHT IS IT MAED"

Nice!

so there's pretty much no graceful way of revealing this, but I did the vocal arrangement on "High Hawk Season" and am singing the middle part along with two of my college buddies (which is why I have refrained from commenting on that particular song, which on its surface should be total "DJP comments on this immediately" catnip)

― DJP, Monday, February 28, 2011 5:12 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

:D

yay DJP, and yay ILM :)

PS it is still early but I think I am going to enjoy this album a lot.

hey dan congrats! that is awesome! i was thinking it was kinda goth barbershop quartet in a way. great song.

omg you have no idea how happy I am right now

congrats, dan! The anticipation is too much.

i like the olympics-do-hildegard-von-bingen number

would rescind this if it was not mad complimentary

I was sleeping hardcore and missed that the first time around, ha

album cover is great

his black album?

yeah <3 the typography.

i know jd doesn't like to answer work related ?s but i have always been curious as to what 4AD's policies are w/r/t album art, because every time a band that didn't start on 4AD -- like for example the goats, blonde redhead, or TV on the Radio -- sign to 4AD all of a sudden their album covers totally start to look like 4AD albums

wau @ dan

xpost -- this one's on Merge, Matt!

yeah that's what i mean, this one looks sorta not-4AD in a way i can't quite describe...

maybe i'm nuts tho, but i feel like i can eyeball a 4AD record at 50 paces

DJP awesome work
Bright Mountain Choir Men's Division

high five DJP

the raddest of collabs

"outer scorpion squadron" is really really beautiful

it sounds like nothing else in the back catalog

this is awesome so far (4 tracks in)

i was gonna wait to listen to the full album on release (still am, probably, because i like to hear things in hi-fi, not NPR webstream quality) but there's no way i couldn't listen to "high hawk season" and holy shit this is incredible

yeah this is really nice on first listen. the production is bugging me a bit, i feel like it's a bit underarranged and empty on some tracks, but that's probably because i'm mentally comparing it to Heretic Pride which to me is definitely the best-sounding mountain goats album in terms of production and use of space.

but yeah the songs are good as always!