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  • The Mountain Goats – Dark In Here (CD)

The Mountain Goats – Dark In Here (CD)

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Liner Notes

Recorded at the legendary FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, John Darnielle brought his characteristically literary songwriting into a room that once hosted Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, and the Staple Singers. The weight of that history seeps into every track, giving this companion to "Getting Into Knives" a slower burn and a deeper gravity than anything in the Mountain Goats catalog.

CD: 4-panel wallet with 16-page booklet.

At last it can be told: the story of how, when The Mountain Goats got together in early March, 2020, it was to make not one album, but two. The idea this time around was to work with Matt Ross-Spang, the dashing Memphis wunderkind who'd engineered that album and charmed us all with his gentle wit and old-school savoir-faire. The Memphis album-Getting Into Knives, which came out last October-would be brighter, bolder, marked by rich and vibrant hues; the Muscle Shoals one-Dark in Here, set for release on June 25-quieter, smokier, but more deeply textured and intense. One of the words that John used when we were talking about the direction for Dark in Here was "wild," which I liked a lot. Not wild in the sense of abandon-these aren't those kind of songs. But wild in the sense of something undomesticated, untamable. Wild like the immutability of nature, the way it will take back any piece of untended space as it's own, whether amidst the AutoZones and Chick-fil-A's of Muscle Shoals or among the ruins of a scientific outpost on the Kola Peninsula. Wild like the whale; like a powerful animal. Or a virus-the beast that awakes, emerges from a forest, and stops the world. You can fight the calamity all you want, but either way, it's going to demand your surrender.

Tracklist
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)

UPC: 673855072623
Label: Merge Records
Release Date: 6.25.21
Format: CD