The Mountain Goats – Goths (3-LP Vinyl)
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John Darnielle wrote *Goths* with no guitars anywhere on the record, a deliberate creative constraint that pushed the Mountain Goats into piano, strings, and orchestration. The result lands somewhere between the theatrical and the elegiac, drawing on the goth subculture not for nostalgia's sake but as a lens for examining what happens to the identities we built ourselves around when we were young.
3-LPs pressed at 45rpm in gatefold jacket with full lyrics, download included
From Peter Hughes of the Mountain Goats: The theme this time around is goth, a subject closer to my heart perhaps than that of any Mountain Goats album previous. And while John writes the songs, as he always has, it feels more than ever like he’s speaking for all of us in the band, erstwhile goths (raises hand) or otherwise, for these are songs that approach an identity most often associated with youth from a perspective that is inescapably adult. Anyone old enough to have had the experience of finding oneself at sea in a cultural landscape that’s suddenly indecipherable will empathize with Pat Travers showing up to a Bauhaus show looking to jam, for example. But underneath the outward humor, there is evident throughout a real tenderness toward, and solidarity with, our former fellow travelers—the friends whose bands never made it out of Fender’s Ballroom, the Gene Loves Jezebels of the world—the ones whose gothic paths were overtaken by the realities of life, or of its opposite. It’s something we talk about a lot, how fortunate and grateful we are to share this work, a career that’s become something more rewarding and fulfilling than I think any of us could have imagined. We all know how easily it could’ve gone the other way, and indeed for a long time did.
Tracklist
Side A
Side B
Side C
Side D
Side E
Side F
UPC: 673855057910
Label: Merge Records
Release Date: 5.19.17
Format: LP Vinyl