Following the success of We Shall All Be Healed, The Mountain Goats return with a third record for 4AD. The Sunset Tree was recorded by John Vanderslice at Prairie Sun Studios (a favorite haunt of Tom Waits, among others) in North Carolina. The album features long time collaborator Peter Hughes, along with Franklin Bruno, and acclaimed jazz cellist Eric Friedlander. "Bob Dylan proved that vitriol and acoustic guitars could go together, but the Mountain Goats' John Darnielle has taken confessio   [ read more ]

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Get Lonely is every bit as assured as its predecessor, The Sunset Tree, but the mood is entirely different. Sunset chronicled the fraught, violent relationship between John Darnielle and his stepfather and derived its power from an unblinking exorcism of personal demons, while Get Lonely is the haunted aftermath. It's a reflective, intimate record. The mood is one of bittersweet resignation rather than cathartic release. It's a quiet triumph, murmuring with a modest but entirely    [ read more ]

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The Mountain Goats have recorded several fine albums that have established them as a genuine cult phenomenon and confirmed John Darnielle's status as one of the finest lyricists of his generation. "Heretic Pride" is a suite of songs about mythical creatures, imaginary cults, slasher films, and pulp fiction novelists. Here, Darnielle has also come up with some of the most anthemic, impassioned, and downright catchy songs of his career.[ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. The Mountain Goats have recorded several fine albums that have established them as a genuine cult phenomenon and confirmed John Darnielle's status as one of the finest lyricists of his generation. "Heretic Pride" is a suite of songs about mythical creatures, imaginary cults, slasher films, and pulp fiction novelists. Here, Darnielle has also come up with some of the most anthemic, impassioned, and downright catchy songs of his career.

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Since 1995, the general rule has been for Mountain Goats albums to feature a mixture of home-recorded and studio songs. November of 2002 finds Darnielle and Hughes locked in Tarbox Road Studios in upstate New York with producer Tony Doogan (Mogwai, Belle and Sebastian, Mojave 3, The Delgados) using great big pieces of equipment to conjure paranoid visions of a couple permanently on the cusp of divorce. The characters that populate Tallahassee (referred to by fans as "the Alpha couple," owing to the w   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Get Lonely is every bit as assured as its predecessor, The Sunset Tree, but the mood is entirely different. Sunset chronicled the fraught, violent relationship between John Darnielle and his stepfather and derived its power from an unblinking exorcism of personal demons, while Get Lonely is the haunted aftermath. It's a reflective, intimate record. The mood is one of bittersweet resignation rather than cathartic release. It's a quiet triumph, murmuring with a modes   [ read more ]

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The remarkable seventh studio album --the first in three years -- from the consistently rewarding veins of JOHN DARNIELLE's Mountain Goat-song mine. Sixteen tracks recorded both at his home in Iowa and in some place called "Nebraska" with friend SIMON JOYNER.

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#3 of 3 Mountain Goats compilations, this one has never seen the light of day before. Contains songs from various 7"s and compilations. Super good alt country stuff here.

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The follow-up release to last year's Tallahassee is the most accessible and commercial record of their notable career. John Darnielle and Peter Hughes joined forces with Franklin Bruno, Christopher McGuire, and Nora Danielson for the ten-day recording session. Recorded at Bear Creek studios in Washington State and produced by John Vanderslice (with whom they spent months on tour this past year).[ read more ]

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Solitary singers wielding acoustic guitars are the musical equivalent of a glass of water. It's a means of expression that boasts more than its share of boring, flavorless, transparent hacks, and while there's bound to be the occasional draught of earthy, lukewarm sludge, it's hard to get passionate about disliking all but the most inane troubadour. Every now and then, however, a refreshing wellspring of talent emerges, like a Bob Dylan or a Woody Guthrie. While John Darnielle, aka The Mountain G   [ read more ]

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Reissue of the 1999 Ajax compilation, #2 of 3 in a series. This volume includes: 1. "Noche del Guajolote" (originally released on I Like Walt 7" EP, Walt, 1994) 2. "Going to Bangor" (originally released on You and What Army? CS, Sing, Eunuchs!, 1994) 3. "Against Agamemnon" (originally released on Howl...a Farewell Compilation of Unreleased Songs CD, Glitterhouse/Zuma GER, 1994) 4. Transmissions to Horace CS (originally released on Sonic Enemy, 1993), 10 songs 5. "Black Molly" (originally released on In Rele   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Following the success of We Shall All Be Healed, The Mountain Goats return with a third record for 4AD. The Sunset Tree was recorded by John Vanderslice at Prairie Sun Studios (a favorite haunt of Tom Waits, among others) in North Carolina. The album features long time collaborator Peter Hughes, along with Franklin Bruno, and acclaimed jazz cellist Eric Friedlander. "Bob Dylan proved that vitriol and acoustic guitars could go together, but the Mountain Goats' John Darnielle has taken co   [ read more ]

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