The Mountain Goats - Dark In Here (Black Vinyl)

The Mountain Goats - Dark In Here (Black Vinyl)When the Mountain Goats got together in March 2020, it was to make not one album, but two. The idea was to again work with Matt Ross Spang, the dashing Memphis wunderkind. Matt pitched we spend a week at Sam Phillips Recording, his home base in Memphis, followed by another at the storied Fame Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, a plan that dovetailed nicely with Johns notion of corralling these songs into two complementary batches: one light,

"When the Roses Come Again

she invites us to stare down the beautiful and terrible in the world

there is simply not a bad song on the entire record

Protect-U is the studio project of Mike Petillo and Aaron Leitko

and his first attempts at songwriting were him feeling around in the dark to set some of them to music

against the backdrop of horrifying forest fires

to the "Earth" of its title

playing as a musical unit that’s constantly in a state of flux and development

In spite of (but mostly because of) wrenching breakup-centered lyrical material delivered in a very real

Broadcast will have their long out of print albums made available again through Warp Records on LP and CD

which Bandcamp called 2019’s Pulse Points “their best album yet”

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