Album review: The Mountain Goats - 'The Life Of The World To Come'

Album review: The Mountain Goats - 'The Life Of...

John Darnielle’s last Mountain Goats record was called ‘Heretic Pride’ , and each track on this latest one – his 17th studio album – is based on a different passage in the Bible. Alanis Morissette would probably call that ironic. In...

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The Mountain Goats

The Mountain Goats

Peer into the lyric book of your average indie band and you’ll venture into some groundbreaking territory: wanting to shag someone, getting wasted, getting wasted while wanting to shag someone… really, it’s pretty limitless. What you won’t...

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The Mountain Goats  :  Palmcorder Yajna

The Mountain Goats : Palmcorder Yajna

Over the last eleven albums, the frighteningly prolific Mountain Goats – to all intents and purposes just one man, Portland native John Darnielle, and his boombox - has gradually grown out of bang-on-a-can lo-fi and grown into one of the most...

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