The Mountain Goats

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.

'Getting Into Knives', eh? Am I gonna have to ban the Mountain Goats now too?

(j/k, looking forward to this!)

the sound of this song (arrangement + production) reminds me of the Okkervil River album I Am Very Far - orchestral, live-sounding, lightly gothy. I like that sound a lot.

Another song from the new album:

https://www.mergerecords.com/the-mountain-goats-are-ready-to-get-famous

fyi before clicking: it's a 29-second clip on Spotify if you don't have an account with that company

fyi before NOT clicking: there are other things on the page including words from John and a link to a page with links to non-Spotify places to listen to and buy the song and also buy the new album

good looking out: https://themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/track/get-famous

Okay, this is great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH7nWoRXSKo

New track from the album up:

https://themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/track/picture-of-my-dress

About it, plus a sad note about its recording:

On New Year's Day 2019, now a distant world away, Maggie Smith, author of "Good Bones," tweeted a plotline for an imaginary buddy movie about a divorced woman driving around the US with her wedding dress, taking it all around the country. I thought to myself: what if she's taking it to places she didn't go when she was married, what if she's showing her dress the life she didn't live? I hunkered down and a couple hours later I'd written "Picture of My Dress." In March of 2020, also now a distant world away, we recorded the tune with Matt Ross-Spang at Sam Phillips in Memphis. Playing on the track are the Mountain Goats -- John, Peter, Jon, and Matt -- plus Bram Gielen and Chris Boerner for that extra sweetness. We were assisted in the studio by one hell of a nice guy named Matt Denham, who died unexpectedly this week and we are all torn up about it because he was a real one so I am sending this out to you, bud. Everybody else give an extra head-nod while you listen to the studio attaché with the gentle way, a song like this can only be the result of everybody in the room being on the same wavelength and his contribution was a special energy that this world will miss but the next one is presently richer for. Enjoy!

An obituary for Denham can be found here. Based on the many notes on the tribute wall via this page, he was deeply loved:

https://www.colemanfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Matthew-Denham/#!/Obituary

The online show tonight was very lovely. Look forward to next week's too.

Also really loved the show tonight, and having the chat to get excited with was a great touch. Can’t wait for next week’s stream.

Looking forward to next week’s as well. Absolutely loved the Springsteenified Heel Turn 2 outro

New album is very rewarding. Lots of big tunes on it. I keep yelling along to Get Famous. Bell Swamp Connection and The Last Place I Saw You Alive are as goosebumpy as MG songs can be