“Telling any story at all has stakes, you know, whether it’s true or not.”
The Mountain Goats
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Twenty Triangle Releases That Made This Long Year Better
From Afrofuturist children’s music to queer outlaw country, wispy electro-pop
heartbreak to joyous beats about Black love: These local releases kept us anchored.
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“No Children” by the Mountain Goats Finds a Surprising New Audience: Gen Z TikTokers
The 2002 song, by the way, is an extremely dark ballad about divorce.
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John Darnielle Announces Spooky Third Novel, ‘Devil House’
The latest book by The Mountain Goats’s frontleader is due out in January.
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600 Songs In, the Mountain Goats Are No Broken Record
‘Dark in Here’ finds the Goats revisiting old themes with a fresh voice.
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The Mountain Goats’ 19th Album Probes the Unknowable Expanse
“Getting Into Knives” feels like John Darnielle’s fully-realized vision.
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Watch the Bobblehead Mountain Goats Sing “Get Famous”
It’s the first music video from John Darnielle’s famed indie band in five years.
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The Mountain Goats Announce New Album and Share Single “As Many Candles as Possible”
The Mountain Goats are getting into knives.
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Triangle First: The Mountain Goats’ Matt Douglas Steps to the Front on “Black Smokestack”
The song comes from Douglas’s forthcoming “En Masse” EP, where a warm bath of indie rock vestiges and hushed, sweeping electronic vistas converge into vivid forms.
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Surprise-ish! It’s a New Tape by The Mountain Goats.
The coronavirus shutdown sent John Darnielle back to his elemental early way of working, recording songs about pagans on a half-broken boombox.