The Mountain Goats - Getting Into Knives [2LP]

The Mountain Goats - Getting Into Knives [2LP]On the first of March, 2020, John Darnielle, Peter Hughes, Matt Douglas, and Jon Wurster, aka The Mountain Goats band, visited legendary studio Sam Phillips Recording in Memphis, TN. Darnielle armed his band with new songs and reunited with producer Matt Ross Spang who engineered last year's In League with Dragons. In the same room where The Cramps tracked their 1980 debut album, The Mountain Goats spent a week capturing the magic of a band at the top

Grandma's Boy

Some cleaing up has been done

allowed the band the freedom to create some of the songs on the spot

Hansard steps into his own spotlight here with a collection that’s raw

into 56 concise minutes of gracious elegance

the guitar masterwork of Eddie Van Halen and the irreplaceable rhythm section of drummer Alex Van Halen and bassist/backing vocalist Michael Anthony

Montrose's first two albums would ultimately help shape and influence many of the hard rock bands that followed

helping Prince recoup finances after his expensive Lovesexy Tour

the track is an ode to exploration and the creative ingenuity of isolation

But the version of himself that he presents publicly

It's an album that undeniably marks Diaz's status as a first-rate songwriter

Celebrating the 15th-anniversary of the film