The Mountain Goats - Goths (May 19, 2017) Album • Page 2

Waking up to a Mountain Goats album announcement is among the great things in life

 

Noticed this at the bottom of the bandcamp:


NO COMPED VOCALS
NO PITCH CORRECTION
NO GUITARS



hmmmmm

 

Pre-order up early. Get on it before the livestream at 4 causes the servers to crash

Goths by the Mountain Goats

 

Seconding this.

 

Lol one of the songs that didn't make the album is called Get High and Listen to the Cure

 

Been looking to get into TMG for a while. Should I just wat and start with the new album or is there a really good entry point already?

 

New album will be very different than the rest
Most people say Sunset Tree

 

The Sunset Tree is where I started.

All Eternals Deck really sparked my love for them.

Others may tell you to start with all their post lo-fi work and start from Tallahassee and onward.

There is no wrong answer

 

Very excited for this.

 

Get Lonely is my favorite but it's an unparalleled bummer

 

I do love bummer music.

 

I love GL, but i'm not sure if it's for the uninitiated.

I say start with Tallahassee, The Coronor's Gambit, and Heretic Pride. those were the three i was given by a friend to try and convert me and it really worked.

 

Gl was my first. It's a nice intro bc John sounds...uh, different on that one

 

I have listened to so much Mountain Goats music this week

 

HAIL SATAN

 

oh man

 

get lonely is good music for crying under the covers at an unknown time in the early morning
tallahassee is getting drunk in the summer and burying despair inside anger
we shall all be healed is for laughing at the absurdity of omnipresent misery
all hail west texas is for realizing everyone's life sucks as much as yours
the life of the world to come is all of the above, revisited on your figurative deathbed

 

We Shall All Be Healed and Heretic Pride are probably the only two of his full band records I'm not in love with, but it's been awhile since I've given either a thorough listen

Life of course has "Hebrews 11:40" which is an all timer for me.

 

All Hail West Texas is my favourite album by them, the lyrics are unbelievable (although that's pretty common coming from John Darnielle, but still). Transcendental Youth is also fantastic and I haven't seen it mentioned.

 

TY is a top 3 record of his, it's perfect front to back

 

We Shall All Be Healed is a criminally undercooked Mountain Goats album. Maybe not the most musically diverse, but goddamn some of the songwriting on that record is incredibly moving. Your Belgian Things and Cotton are deeply personal, and Pigs That Ran Straightaway Into the Water is one of my favorite closers of John's.

 

Transcendental Youth was my first TMG album and I also think it's one of his best

 

I'm just consistently amazed at Darnielle's ability for bottomless empathy. He writes about such a wide range of characters and experiences but always with such detailed thoughtfulness.

Beat the Champ could have been an incredibly gimmicky album in someone else's hands, instead of the brilliant album it was.