The Mountain Goats - Dark In Here (June 25, 2021) • Page 2

Yep. He has one ready to be announced right now too. It leaked on Target's site.

 

https://www.mergerecords.com/product/dark_in_here

Preorders up on Merge. Actual release date is June 25th.

 

Is there an actual difference between the peak vinyl and the regular double LP? Eight dollars is a lot of difference

 

“Mobile” out at midnight it appears

 

Digging the new song

 

Apparently they were going to surprise release this on night one of the Getting Into Knives tour. That would have been cool!

 

more preorders The Mountain Goats | Official Merch Store | Hello Merch

 

oh really wonderful song

 

I feel like a heretic cuz I didn’t like Knives very much but digging the new single

 

Love this track.

 

I like this song a lot more than anything off either record from last year. The almost bluesy leads are really cool.

 

Track lengths
1 Parisian Enclave (1:25)
2 The Destruction of the Kola Superdeep Borehole Tower (3:20)
3 Mobile (3:42)
4 Dark in Here (3:23)
5 Lizard Suit (4:16)
6 When a Powerful Animal Comes (5:27)
7 To the Headless Horseman (3:54)
8 The New Hydra Collection (2:28)
9 The Slow Parts on Death Metal Albums (5:26)
10 Before I Got There (4:15)
11 Arguing With the Ghost of Peter Laughner About His Coney Island Baby Review (3:58)
12 Let Me Bathe in Demonic Light (5:11)

So looks to be ~50 minutes

 

more info in the thread

 

i've heard maybe three of their albums at this point and that's likely all i'll ever hear because their discography is so overwhelming now haha

 

For my first like five years of being a Mountain Goats fan, I had really only heard Get Lonely, Sunset Tree, and Beat the Champ. It was only after Goths that I started digging into more of their stuff, but it's totally overwhelming. There are plenty of albums (especially the tape deck stuff) that I've heard once or not at all.

 

I thought someone had made one of those maps that are like “start here” “if you like this album go here next” for their discography but I can’t seem to find it. I’ll post it here if I ever come across it.

 

I can probably whip something up in MS Paint

 

I hope this helps

 

The Yo-Yo EPs are god-tier, but not streaming. Gotta dig em up on YouTube.

 

This Spotify playlist has pretty much every release in order even if a lot of them aren't playable. Everything they've put out is top tier shit

 

I’d say the three eras of TMG are best exemplified by All Hail West Texas, Tallahassee, and Beat the Champ (that last one is probably controversial). If you like AHWT, listen to the records that came before it. If you like Tallahassee, listen to everything up to and including All Eternals Deck. If you like Champ, listen to Transcendental Youth up to the present day.

I also kind of feel as if Getting Into Knives may have marked a shift into a new era of the band as well. It and this new track feel more like their own thing than they do, say, Goths or In League.

 

I'd personally say the most representative albums of each era would be All Hail West Texas, Heretic Pride, Transcendental Youth, and In League With Dragons. There's definitely a divide between the lo-fi albums, the 4AD albums, the early Merge albums, and the newer Merge albums (starting with Goths or arguably Beat The Champ). I'd also say you could arguably divide the the lo-fi era to pre-Nine Black Poppies (where it was mostly EPs and releases on compilations) and post-Nine Black Poppies (more coherent full lengths/EPs that feel structured rather than just like a series of songs).