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...loving permeates the scenery… but this isn’t a breakup album, at least not in the traditional sense. This isn’t the earnest mediocrity of Beck’s “Sea Change” or the frozen narcissism of The Mountain Goats?? “Get Lonely.” Hell, you can argue that it’s more complex even than that magnum opus of breaking-it-off, Bob Dylan’s “Blood on the Tracks.”Oldham (or his narrator?...
...This song is the first love song I wrote about my wife, after I had actually seen her,” murmured John Darnielle as he began the Mountain Goats?? set at last Thursday night’s show. I settled into my pastel-green cushioned seat in Remis Auditorium at the Boston MFA, comforted by the anticipation of an untainted love-song, albeit concerned: what did he write about her before they...
...Goats?? opener, an endearing but unremarkable indie band with an unwieldy name (The Prayers & Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers), had earlier justified one intellectually vapid piece with the fallacious aphorism “like all songs, this one has a story behind it,” providing The Goats a theoretical paper tiger...
During the Mountain Goats?? performance, it became increasingly clear that the set-list had been carefully crafted, thematically divided between two representations of love. When a fan shouted out a request to hear “Cubs in Five,” the whimsical opening track of the Mountain Goats?? 1995 release, “Nine Black Poppies,” Darnielle replied, with characteristically brusque decision, “I am not going to play it. I feel I would be dishonest to lead you on any longer about that...
...this changed, however, in The Mountain Goats?? two latest albums, “We Shall All Be Healed” and “The Sunset Tree.” Studio-recorded (the latter in coordination with musician John Vanderslice) with a more refined sound and wider instrumentation, these albums have been received with reservations by fans accustomed to the raw truthfulness of previous work. In addition, both albums abandon the traditional song-series and their fictional narratives, telling instead an autobiographical account of Darnielle’s childhood. Writing closer to home, Darnielle drops the overbearing hysterics...