The Mountain Goats

Need to fully absorb it still, but yeah, I can already see myself liking this as much as Heretic Pride and All Eternals Deck, which means this will probably finish somewhere in the second half of my year end top ten.

John needs to become a permanent co-host on Judge John Hodgman.

Is it streaming somewhere at this point?

http://www.maximumfun.org/shows/judge-john-hodgman

The metal episode is the best.

Ah, sorry, I meant the album! (Based on previous comments.) But I'm glad for that too!

Duh doy, I should have picked up on that.

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No, but it is, uh, around.

has anyone ever pitched Deadmau5, Skrillex and SBTRKT remixing Mountain Goats songs?

i certainly hope not.

No, but it is, uh, around.

pet peeve is people phrasing "there's a leak online" like this as if there were some Dumb Ol' Suits who wouldn't be able to understand what "it is, uh, around" would mean

speak for yourself man, I still don't know what we're talking about—far as I can tell some kind of steamer called the Mountain Goat is supposed to be around, but may have sprung a leak? also something about the holocaust

It leaked online and I downloaded it illegally.

No, but it is, uh, around.

pet peeve is people phrasing "there's a leak online" like this as if there were some Dumb Ol' Suits who wouldn't be able to understand what "it is, uh, around" would mean

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i usually just walk up to a website and be like "um...heeey man...um....are you holding?"

you know where i can get some, um, *420*

yo man you got any of that yam king of crops

To be fair, "know where I can get some, um, Transcendental Youth" does sorta sound like drug slang.

hey mp3 hosting website....are you cool?

WHO LET THE NARC IN. i may wait to buy this one! i want the anonymous 4 memories to stay foremost with me for a while longer.

"...John's not here!"

To be fair, "know where I can get some, um, Transcendental Youth" does sorta sound like drug slang.

always feel like having a weed strain named after one of your tunes would be some sort of ultimate accolade

if you you smoke this shit...get this...you'll have....no children

anyone got some swedish treeeees?

my man

Bong for Dennis Brown

The Meth Inside

Going to Jamaica

So anyway, stream up:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/album-premiere-the-mountain-goats-transcendental-youth-20120924

well shock surprise this is awesome

So far, this is great.

When I was scoring "White Cedar" in January I had to take regular "me" breaks, that song has become very important to my life

Just listened to that one -- it's really, really lovely, arrangement and song both.

yeah I've been on the "White Cedar" bandwagon for a little while now

this whole album is a gigantic ball of YAY

Like a village on the steppe/
About to get collectivized.

well this is great

Yeah, I'm totally infatuated, oh hell in luv at first listening, which doesn't always happen w MGs or much else. Seems like, if you are a The Hold Steady fan but getting a bit frustrated with creative lovehandles, rest assured this contains no fat, but plenty crucial lyric and especially sonic detail, in questing, cunning and at rate unstoppable underdog tales. Also, if you're frustrated by good horn sections wasted on, say the St/ Vincent/Byrne thing (yeah I'll listen again, or maybe not), well you've come to the right place, as Elvis would say. Kind of a King Creole pang-vibe here, the metal-compatible spirit too.

Not to downplay the, what can I call it, clear-eyed, also blues-compatible spirit, compatible also with (and not slowed down or upstaged by) reading Tricia Romano's Twitter funeral pyre for Village Voice just now (not to sidetrack this thread, but was struck by compatility, water and everything in it rolling under the musical bridge)

Anyway, Top Ten baby, P&J or whatEVAH

fantastic record. "until i am whole" really perfectly describes a set of months i had this year

oh and "spent gladiator 2," that really spare groove they ride on is mean as hell

i wonder if this is gonna be on spotify and if anyone shall we say close with the band might comment on that

merge has all their stuff up there iirc
anyway, joe perry woefully underutilized here, but otherwise great!

sounds good. not very mountain goats though. has their music ever sounded as rich and subtly arranged before?

has their music ever sounded as rich and subtly arranged before?

we shall all be healed imo. get lonely too, which incidentally is the other record with horns

He's been heading in this direction for a while. Get Lonely and The Life of The World To Come were especially lush. This one just isn't as sparse as those records (which may be why I already like it better).

I'm not as fond of this one as I was of last year's outstanding album.

The last 4 or 5 records sound absolutely gorgeous. The recording, mixing and mastering are sublime.

On first listen I'm with Alfred. Some great songs, but nothing grabbed me by the lapels like so much of the last two albums.

All of the last 4-5 records have been varying degrees of wonderful, but Life of the World to Come was the one that still hits me the hardest. Really looking forward to sitting down with this one.

I didn't hear the last albums but this one seems pretty decent. Almost as good as Tallahassee. Which was a completely different beast of course. This one seems lighter and not as grave on first listen.

It took me about three listens to All Eternal's Deck for like to turn to love. One listen in, I'm still at like with this one, but I take that as a positive sign.

(Get Lonely, alas, never grew on me, and TLOTWTC only ever did slightly.)

yeah this isn't knocking me out like All Eternals Deck--the strings on "Age of Kings," backing vocals on "High Hawk Season," etc. were like perfect backing for the lyrics, some of that record almost has a Paris 1919 vibe to me--but this definitely has a lot of great stuff on it, "White Cedar" and "Diaz Brothers" are great for sure