The Mountain Goats – Getting Into Knives (CD)
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Liner Notes
Recorded at Sam Phillips Recording in Memphis with producer Matt Ross-Spang, "Getting Into Knives" finds John Darnielle and his bandmates drawing on the warmth of that legendary room in ways that push against the Mountain Goats' lo-fi origins without abandoning the emotional directness that built their following. It's a Memphis record in the deepest sense, steeped in the city's complicated relationship with beauty and ruin.
CD: 4-panel wallet with 16 page booklet
There is always water.
In flowing rivers, in falling raindrops, in waves that will tear us to pieces, in ice cold glasses toasting the living and the dead. Water can carve away at mountainsides over eons, or come crashing over the city in an instant. Animals, fugitives, loners, and crumbling signs of life swim through the depths of the Mountain Goats’ Getting Into Knives, due October 23 via Merge. Like an eight-foot swell of blades, John Darnielle, Matt Douglas, Peter Hughes, and Jon Wurster ground the songs in the impermanence of permanence and the certainty of uncertainty, the casual and subtle threat that everything will come to an end.
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UPC: 673855071626
Label: Merge Records
Release Date: 10.23.20
Format: CD