The Mountain Goats – The Sunset Tree – 2005 The soft piano, the brushes on the drums, something’s a little different on The Sunset Tree. Now, albeit I have refused to go deeper into the past of The Mountain Goats. I’m not interested in all that lo-fi stuff recorded on Continue Reading

The Mountain Goats – We Shall All Be Healed – 2004 John Darnielle is a fantastic storyteller. At once confessional and then, hard right turn to observational. Comfortable in 1st person, 3rd person, 2nd person, he’s what you should think of when you hear the term “Rock Poet Laureate”. He Continue Reading