The Mountain Goats - Dark In Here (Black Vinyl)

The Mountain Goats - Dark In Here (Black Vinyl)When the Mountain Goats got together in March 2020, it was to make not one album, but two. The idea was to again work with Matt Ross Spang, the dashing Memphis wunderkind. Matt pitched we spend a week at Sam Phillips Recording, his home base in Memphis, followed by another at the storied Fame Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, a plan that dovetailed nicely with Johns notion of corralling these songs into two complementary batches: one light,

creating a unique kind of murmur

trip-hop and confessional song writing

This is a very unique performance

The Low Anthem

Joey Santiago's insistent

daring music makes for a profound experience we are eager to share

Five hour jams would sometimes yield a riff that then became a few bars of a song

Hamid Drake

sun dried and fragrant husks

One apex point along that journey took place circa 2003/2004 with DOOM releasing Viktor Vaughn Parts 1 & 2

is the inevitable repercussion to Sunbathing Animal's pure emotion

and right before we left