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In League With Dragons is the seventeenth studio album by the Mountain Goats, released on April 26, 2019, on Merge Records. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Inspired by tabletop role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons , the album has been described as a "partial rock opera " with influences from noir literature .
The Mountain Goats released their 15th album, Beat the Champ, on 7 April 2015, again with Merge Records. [25] According to Pitchfork Media , the album concentrates on the professional wrestlers Darnielle admired when he was a child and tries to develop and imagine their lives. [ 26 ]
The Mountain Goats are an American, Durham, North Carolina–based band, led by American singer-songwriter John Darnielle. Darnielle began recording in 1991, and is known for his highly literate lyrics and (until 2002) his lo-fi recording style. [ 1 ]
Goths is the sixteenth studio album by the Mountain Goats, released on May 19, 2017, on Merge Records. [1] [2] [3] The band has stated that Goths was inspired by an adolescence listening to The Cure, Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Joy Division, as well as hearing songs on the radio station KROQ-FM. [4]
Jennifer O'Connor (born November 8, 1973) is an American singer-songwriter. She has released a series of well-regarded solo albums, and has either toured or played with Wilco, the Indigo Girls, Feist, Yo La Tengo, Dump, and the Mountain Goats, among other bands and musicians.
Getting Into Knives is the nineteenth studio album by indie folk band the Mountain Goats, released on October 23, 2020, [7] through Merge Records. [8] [2] The album was recorded in March 2020 over six days at Sam Philips Recording in Memphis, in the same room where psychobilly band the Cramps tracked their 1980 debut album Songs the Lord Taught Us. [9]
The Mountain Goats and Kaki King subsequently embarked on a co-headlining tour, billed as the Last Happy Night of Your Life Tour, with the EP being sold as a tour-exclusive release throughout. [30] On September 20, 2010, Darnielle appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon as a guest vocalist in a performance of the song "Digging for Something ...
This is the first Mountain Goats album to prominently feature a horn section, contributed and arranged by fellow musician Matthew E. White, who opened for the band on their 2012 tour. [ 16 ] The first 1,000 preorders of the album came with a bonus 7", [ 17 ] containing demos for the songs "Steal Smoked Fish" on Side A, and "In the Shadow of the ...