The Mountain Goats

Appropriately gothy new song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anS6bcPpvoQ

*waves at djp*

also this is fucking excellent

I would love to meet the basses they used for this because they are badass

How's his new book?

they played two songs off the new album here the other week, and they were so good I wanted the show to extend to include the rest of it

Streaming on NPR

i'm only five songs into this but this is easily my favorite mountain goats record in years. the no guitars approach works remarkably well, the arrangements are so detailed and lovely

shouts out to the new order coda of "shelved"

It sounds so much like Hook that I wonder

also: his late '70s West Coast album. I love the electric piano all over the place.

It's an incredibly warm-sounding album to my ears.

you can hear every stick on cymbal

I like it but it's too jazz, I thought the same thing about the last one but it won me around, but I'm pretty sure this one is too jazz.

^fully expect to cut and paste this for every Mountain Goats album from now on.

what is "too jazz"

i feel like this one is pretty jazz i guess but the melodies are more accessible than the more free-falling digressions on beat the champ imo

There are bits of this I just can't seem to get behind right now (the chorus of "High Unicorn Tolerance" for instance) but I'm hoping those objections fall away

I like the woodwind arrangement and hook more than the song.

"Abandoned Flesh" and "Wear Black" are my favs

I love "Abandoned Flesh" so much

On one background listen, this sounds like a 70s smooth pop record about 80s goth rock, which is definitely interesting. Even streaming, the arrangements and recording sound really good.

everything J0hn D has written in praise of Steely Dan culminates in the horn arrangement for "Paid in Cocaine."

otm

I would drop "Unicorn" and couple others, but some of this is growing on me. "Abandoned Flesh" is pure ILM catnip.

My wife got her vinyl copy in the mail yesterday, the packaging is gorgeous and the bonus 12" of dark ambient reworkings of tunes is certainly interesting, not to damn it with faint praise

this is so fun. i guess the last one was too

"paid in cocaine" sounds straight off of Gaucho

I like the new single. Doesn't sound like Alan Alda at all.

Very summery!

Lush.

a long, long time ago tmg played 'california song' at lee's palace in toronto. it's a deep cut; my ex's favorite. her tears were exalted. there's no way you can hope for that to happen and then have it happen.

for me, when he stepped up and over the monitors and drove 'against pollution' home (with this young band, prayers and tears...) well, it shot me in the face.
i can't wait to get the new one.

This is fucking awesome.

Is it ridiculous to say it's John's Kaputt?

DJP - awesome vocal arrangement on the opener.

Is it ridiculous to say it's John's Kaputt?

ha, a friend posed this exact question to me yesterday

what did you answer?

MY GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE

:D

this is a picture of the mountain goats with cindy wilson of the B-52's onstage, singing "this year." soooooo stoked https://t.co/d1nzrp2GbZ

— The Mountain Goats (@mountain_goats) May 23, 2017

You GUYS.

well damn

Nice.

Fuck this guy.

http://www.nightvalepresents.com/ionlylistentothemountaingoats

that could be cool! nightvale guy is a mensch

quite tempted by JD's novel reading next week too, might do that instead of the music this year. or as well. idk haha

The songs will be available on Vinyl after the last episode of the podcast:

https://www.mergerecords.com/i-only-listen-to-the-mountain-goats-ahwt

Though presumably on filesharing long before that, unless they're literally being recorded the day of the podcast?

If I consider Nightvale to be borderline unlistenablely smug, is the new podcast going to do anything for me?

So that I am not just pissing on everything: this cover rules

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9YjojE-4sU

I have tickets to the show on the 11th, I'm well excited!

Though presumably on filesharing long before that, unless they're literally being recorded the day of the podcast?

They're available legally in digital forms long before that - the Laura Jane Grace one came out before the podcast.

I'm seeing them on the 11th too. Can't wait!

Also: new tracks! https://themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/album/marsh-witch-visions

I will be along this evening too, though I'll be waiting for my girlfriend to get off a train from Glasgow - anyone interested in a pint before heading in?

Update: the whole 'train from Glasgow' didn't go so well, would anyone have use of two gratis tickets?