hello folks! this week, we’re taking a look at Transcendental Youth, the 2012 record by the Mountain Goats, as we make our way through their discography. let’s dig in! i really like Amy AKA Spent Gladiator I – a track[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
hello folks! this week’s record was actually the most recent record the year i first hear the Mountain Goats, so mentally i’ve been dividing the discography into the early period (pre-All Hail West Texas), a middle period (AHWT to here[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
hello folks! this week, we’re looking at the Mountain Goats’ 11th record Heretic Pride, released in 2008 every song on this record is a reference to a verse of the Bible – my biblical study is very far in my[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
hello folks! this week, we’re looking at the Mountain Goats’ 11th record Heretic Pride, released in 2008 i like Sax Rohmer #1 a lot – really dig the way they hold off on the snares for the first like minute,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
hello folks! this week, we’re looking at the 10th studio album from the Mountain Goats, Get Lonely! this record was born during the tour for the last record, The Sunset Tree, and reflects a lot on, well, the loneliness that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
hello folks! our album this week is the ninth studio record from The Mountain Goats – The Sunset Tree. based on the material around this album, this record deals primarily with John Darnielle’s relationship with his late step-father, and the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
hello folks! this week, we’re taking a look at the Mountain Goat’s 2004 album, We Shall All Be Healed. based on the liner notes and the things that John Darnielle has said about the record, , We Shall All Be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
hello folks! we return to our journey through the Mountain Goats discography with their other 2002 record, Tallahassee. as i mentioned in the All Hail West Texas review, that is viewed as kind of the end of an era, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
hello folks! im gonna get ahead of this one and let y’all know im incapable of being impartial about today’s album, All Hail West Texas. it was incredibly important to me at a difficult point of change in my life,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
hello folks! today we’re checking out the last of the early-tape-compilations, 2002’s Ghana. when the compilations were re-released on record label 3 Beads of Sweat, they added this comp to the mix. let’s dig in! it is wild that the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…