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The Mountain Goats Get Lonely LP |
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"Get Lonely" is every bit as assured as its predecessor, "The Sunset Tree",
but the mood is entirely different. "Sunset" chronicled the fraught, violent
relationship between John Darnielle and his stepfather and derived its power
from an unblinking exorcism of personal demons, while "Get Lonely" is the
haunted aftermath. It's a reflective, intimate record. The mood is one of
bittersweet resignation rather than cathartic release. It's a quiet triumph,
murmuring with a modest but entirely surefooted confidence. An uncannily
coherent and subtly redemptive record which will come to be seen as Mountain
Goats' most resonant, assured, and magical collection of songs so far.
"America's best non-hip-hop lyricist." - The New Yorker
"Mountain Goats auteur John Darnielle continues to write songs that could
inspire a season's wroth of TV-movie melodramas...the results can be
extraordinary. Get the man an orchestra, now." - Entertainment Weekly
Selections:
1. Wild Sage
2. New Monster Avenue
3. Half Dead
4. Get Lonely
5. Maybe Sprout Wings
6. Moon Over Goldsboro
7. In The Hidden Places
8. Song For Lonely Giants
9. Woke Up New
10. If You See Light
11. Cobra Tattoo
12. In Corolla
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