The Mountain Goats

"this year" at the end of "minding the gap" couldn't have been a better choice; perfect capstone to a painfully beautiful movie

free NYC show at East River Park in August

https://cityparksfoundation.org/events/mountain-goats/?date=20190810

and also

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/22/714408952/first-listen-the-mountain-goats-in-league-with-dragons

is it just me or is there a weird edit at the very start of the first chord on sicilian crest?

Good catch, getting that correct rn

I guess it's not a big deal, I mean, Grouper had the same thing happen with "Clearing"

saw them live on Friday, tour opener in DC. it was great fun, though DC crowds never dance around quite as much as I would like.

matt douglas was simply incredible. what a wonderful musician!

i'm loving this...such an amazingly produced/recorded album...Passaic 1975 is going to be one of my fav MG tunes ever I think

<3 the engineer Matt Ross-Spang is just a genius dude. It has been interesting to read how people are talking about it being a "new direction" production-wise but in my mind I was just taking what I love about "Against Pollution" and trying to use it as a template for every song across the album-- this kind of tensile quality and space.

Wizard King feels so special to me and I can’t place why. I love it.

Hey they have a new backing singer.

10 years ago we did this song with Stephen on Comedy Central but it never aired. Tonight we did it again https://t.co/m8DwwRj6LH

— The Mountain Goats (@mountain_goats) July 17, 2019

Good catch, getting that correct rn

I guess it's not a big deal, I mean, Grouper had the same thing happen with "Clearing"

― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, April 28, 2019 3:19 PM (two months ago) bookmarkflaglink

oh man i never saw this!

Listened to John on Song Exploder from a few weeks ago and I solidly would like to hear him discuss every song. Absolutely loved Colbert singing This Year also.

I solidly would like to hear him discuss every song.

There's a podcast where he does this with Joseph Fink.

Get High And Listen To The Cure

As a parent, been thinking about Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton this week and had to decide that the lessons of the lyrics no longer apply if Death Metal Band were switched out with Instagram Jackass Knockoff.

great song selections in "get high and listen to the cure," think i'm gonna get high and listen to the cure tonight

much love for the Dynamite Magazine font

think i'm gonna get high and listen to the cure tonight

you won't be sorry

New song:

https://www.stereogum.com/2077321/watch-john-darnielle-debut-new-mountain-goats-song-for-the-snakes/video/

is that available anywhere public?

sic: https://youtube-dl.org

No less than five(!) separate, individual ads for "Donald Glover Presents" popped up when I followed that link. Stereogum getting that Childish Gambino $$$.

But I do really dig this TMG tune.

afaik youtube-dl.org will not make a facebook video visible

Sorry I should’ve provided more steps

But I won’t

I tested them tho and they work

For The Snakes still not public, but two other new home songs are:

Exegetic Chains

Until Olympius Returns

new tape is out (and on bandcamp!)

I recorded ten songs in ten days into my Panasonic RX-FT500. The album is now LIVE on Bandcamp; a limited edition of 1000 cassettes is in production and you can order one on Bandcamp, too. https://t.co/RCftMZ5CpD

— The Mountain Goats (@mountain_goats) April 10, 2020

Also: gone.

said there will be more made, discouraging ppl from paying eBay prices

Yup, onto a third printing now.

feel a bit iffy about making such calls in praesentia creatori but this new release is probably my favourite first-listen to any of their albums

he's still on here? I thought all his posts were from the early days of ILM.

Yes, incognito, local custom is to not discuss it too much.

Went back to All Eternals Deck today. Such a great album, some of my favourite TMG songs. High Hawk Season is incredible.

Amazing consistency.

TMG makes me feel more like a human and less like the ego piece of shit that I guess I am

New album in October:

https://themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/album/getting-into-knives

New Song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otp5VzITCgs

My cousin "got into" knives and his instagram turned kind of creepy full of demonstration videos of fancy artisan knives cutting objects in half.

I like how the last 4 or so full-band album titles each seemed geared toward some demo of fandom (wrestling, goths, D&D/MtG, Cold Steel).

this is cool

and I have to tell you in case anybody misses it: the organ on the new song? That swelling, throbbing, miraculous Hammond B3? that's CHARLES HODGES. THE GUY WHO WROTE THE "LET'S STAY TOGETHER" ORGAN LINE. "TAKE ME TO THE RIVER." "LOVE AND HAPPINESS." ~THAT~ GUY pic.twitter.com/UDK8fcIRHO

— The Mountain Goats (@mountain_goats) August 11, 2020

wow

More on said song, including Whiney cameo (really)

because I have waited months to talk about our new stuff here's a thread about what's happening on this song. please do subscribe to our YouTube channel I hate to ask but I'm supposed to. https://t.co/vZ20jK2jZR

— The Mountain Goats (@mountain_goats) August 11, 2020

Appreciating the COVID haircut game here:

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,pg_1,q_80,w_1600/srn0ph9rmqihdynupab9.jpg

A marvelous song.

...are those not pre-COVID haircuts, from a time when people could rub their faces on each other in a room?

also from a time when you could visit a stylist which they have all clearly done?

now I'm zooming in to figure out if that's a seam on Hughes' shoulder or they've all been composited in

ENHANCE

Forced perspective. JD is at the back of the room and he is also eighteen feet tall.

...are those not pre-COVID haircuts, from a time when people could rub their faces on each other in a room?

― Steppin' RZA (sic), Tuesday, August 11, 2020 4:52 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

also from a time when you could visit a stylist which they have all clearly done?

― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Tuesday, August 11, 2020 5:06 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

not that I would know but I have it on fairly good authority that none of these people have visited a stylist in 2020 and that this hair is 100% "what happens when you just let it go"

(The pictures were taken last week. When your gig means you have to do a picture, even in a pandemic, you just sort of have to cross your fingers.)

Matt knows how to work his own pomade.