The Mountain Goats – Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan (CD) Moider Mother Khurangbin

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Wasted Life

The album exhibits a folkier side of the band than on future releases

Cruise Ship Designer

Vera Ellen — a Wellington/Los Angeles based multi-instrumentalist and wildly prolific songwriter

The Mountain Goats – Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan (CD) Moider Mother KhurangbinLin Manuel Miranda provides backing vocals on the latest full length release from John Darnielle's The Mountain Goats, that was created from notes about a dream Darnielle had. Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan is the best Mountain Goats album in a decade, maybe even since Transcendental Youth. Its sumptuously crafted, full of gallows humour and as with so much of Darnielles best work delving below the surface reveals layers of deeper meaning