Band: The Mountain Goats and John Vanderslice
Album: Moon Colony Bloodbath
Best song: “Scorpio Rising”
Worst song: “Emerging” has a lot of things I hate about the Mountain Goats.
It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of concept albums; I love the format of using music as a storytelling device or to explore a theme. The only perfect piece of art is a concept album and it could be argued that my favorite recent album is one, too. Continue reading
Band: The Mountain Goats
Album: The Sunset Tree
Best song: “Lion’s Teeth” is amazing. “You or Your Memory” is really good.
Worst song: “Dinu Lapatti’s Bones” isn’t my favorite. I don’t really like “Dilaudid”
I so desperately want to enjoy the Mountain Goats. Like Modest Mouse in my earlier years, John Darnielle does something really interesting and writes outstandingly smart music. But that voice. I want to be able to digest Darnielle’s voice more easily, but cannot do so. Continue reading