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Artist: The Mountain Goats
Album: All Eternals Deck
Label: Merge
Playtime: 42:11 min
Genre: Indie
URL: http://www.myspace.com/themountaingoats
Rip date: 2011-03-24
Street date: 2011-03-29
Size: 56.63 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 177 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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The Mountain Goats are, for all practical purposes, the endlessly clever and
prolific John Darnielle and whatever musicians he surrounds himself with,
which means that while the soundscape may change from project to project, the
overall tone and feel of Darnielle's work remains remarkably consistent. At
his best, he writes finely observed, slightly surreal, impressionistic
vignettes that manage to mix life as we live it with life as we wish we could
live it, and as such he has more in common with a short-story writer than he
does with the typical singer/songwriter.
Taking the name from the Screamin' Jay Hawkins song "Big Yellow Coat,"
Darnielle first donned the Mountain Goats moniker in 1991 while working as a
nurse in a California state hospital, and began releasing cassette-only
albums for the Shrimper label. Despite attracting a devoted underground
following (or, possibly, because of it), the Mountain Goats continued to
release songs in cassette form only for many years, using tape hiss virtually
as an additional instrument. Besides innumerable compilation tracks, the
Mountain Goats have also released many 7" singles for over a dozen labels.
Their full-length albums include Nine Black Poppies and Zopilote Machine
(both released in 1995), Sweden (1996), Full Force Galesburg (1997), and
Nothing for Juice (1997). Protein Source of the Future...NOW! and Bitter
Melon Farm (both 1999 releases) collected many early tape tracks and singles.
Darnielle began the new millennium with The Coroner's Gambit for Absolutely
Kosher before signing to 4AD for the release of the surprisingly polished
Tallahassee in 2002. We Shall All Be Healed followed in 2004, and one year
later Darnielle was back with The Sunset Tree. Remaining prolific as ever,
Darnielle turned away from the intensity of The Sunset Tree for a calmer,
more reflective set of songs on 2006's Get Lonely. The accessible and assured
Heretic Pride appeared in 2008. Next up was the Bible verse-inspired The Life
of the World to Come, the group's sixth album for 4AD, in 2010. Switching to
Merge Records in 2011, Darnielle released All Eternals Deck, which was
recorded in four different studios in Brooklyn, Boston, North Carolina, and
Florida with four different producers -- John Congleton, Scott Solter,
Brandon Eggleston, and Morbid Angel guitarist and Hate Eternal frontman Erik
Rutan -- helming various tracks.
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01. Damn These Vampires ( 3:24)
02. Birth of Serpents ( 3:08)
03. Estate Sale Sign ( 2:47)
04. Age of Kings ( 4:13)
05. The Autopsy Garland ( 2:50)
06. Beautiful Gas Mask ( 3:54)
07. High Hawk Season ( 2:56)
08. Prowl Great Cain ( 3:09)
09. Sourdoire Valley Song ( 3:38)
10. Outer Scorpion Squadron ( 2:32)
11. For Charles Bronson ( 3:01)
12. Never Quite Free ( 3:30)
13. Liza Forever Minnelli ( 3:09)
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