NEW MOUNTAIN GOATS RECORD
The Life Of The World To Come
TO BE RELEASED ON October 6th!
“The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle has been one of the best songwriters of the ‘00s:
-Rolling Stone
“America’s best non-hip-hop lyricist”
-The New Yorker
“Mountain Goats auteur John Darnielle continues to write songs that could inspire a season’s worth of TV-movie melodramas…the results can be extraordinary. Get the man an orchestra, now.”
-Entertainment Weekly
Named 82 out of 100 in Paste Magazine’s list of the 100 best living songwriters
“They’re eccentric gems he uses to work out his lyrical muscles – concise tunes with matter-of-fact lines that tell simple but captivating stories, steadfastly proclaimed in his geek who-lived-to-tell wail.”
-Paste Magazine
4AD is excited to release the new album by THE MOUNTAIN GOATS, which is John Darnielle, Peter Hughes and Jon Wurster. The Life Of The World To Come was recorded this spring and features string arrangements by Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy). Less a profession of religious faith than an immersion in Biblical poetry and imagery, the songs on The Life of the World to Come take their names from verses that informed or inspired them, or which, sometimes, came up against them at right angles.
The Life Of The World To Come is the band's sixth album for 4AD.
Lyric of the Day: "She roared into the driveway of my midwestern ranch style house, on a new Kawasaki, all yellow and black, fresh out of the showroom. Our house faced west. So the big orange sun, positioned at your back, lit up your magnificent silhouette. How much better, how much better, can my life get? 900 cubic centimeters of raw whining power, no outstanding warrants for my arrest. Whoa oh oh, yeah, the pirate's life for me."
lyric of the day: "the animal noises you make/the andalusian coral snake/all hail when standing beside this room/and the heavy hot rains and the sonic boom/there's a monkey in the basement/where did the monkey come from? where did the monkey come from?/there's a monkey in the basement/how did the monkey get there? how did the monkey get there? how did the monkey get there?"
The Mountain Goats are amazing. John Darnielle is one of the best songwriters of our time. I think I have every album, although I admittedly was not there for the cassette tape era. Your music has had an amazing influence on ours. We are also in the Triangle area of NC by the way. Check us out sometime. my personal mountain goats best of mix (in no partricular order, does not include latest album): --BEDMBOOD --Fall of the HIgh School Star Running Back --Jenny --No I Can't --Alpha Desperation March --Sail On --Jaipur --Family Happiness --Golden Boy (sooo good) --the anglo-saxons (sooo good) --going to bogota --going to scotland --the monkey song --coco-yam song --you or your memory --this year --dance music --up the wolves --dilaudid --song for dennis brown --love, love, love --deianara crush --going to bolivia --no children (oh how great) --see america right --palmcorder yajna --linda blair was born innocent --going to georgia yes, all of these fit comfortably on one cd.
I'm expecting a great show next week in Dallas, Tx!! Can't wait ...
- Your local Denton,Tx fan
Hey, also if you wouldn't mind checking out some of my music that would be awesome, any feedback is good feedback! Help out a starting out musician here!
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