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The Mountain Goats Are An American Band Formed In Claremont California By Singer-Songwriter John Darnielle. The Band Is Currently Based In Chapel Hill North Carolina. For Many Years The Sole Member Of The Mountain Goats Was Darnielle Despite The Plural Moniker. The Mountain Goats Are For All Practical Purposes The Endlessly Clever And Prolific John Darnielle And Whatever Musicians He Surrounds Himself With Which Means That While The Soundscape May Change From Project To Project The Overall Tone And Feel Of Darnielle's Work Remains Remarkably Consistent. At His Best He Writes Finely Observed Slightly Surreal Impressionistic Vignettes That Manage To Mix Life As We Live It With Life As We Wish We Could Live It And As Such He Has More In Common With A Novelist Than He Does With The Typical Singer/songwriter Which Is Fitting As He's Also A Published Author. Darnielle's Early Mountain Goats Releases Were Lo-Fi Cassette-Recorded Efforts Cut With A Rotating Lineup Of Musicians Such As 1995's Nine Black Poppies And 2000's The Coroner's Gambit. By 2005's The Sunset Tree His Recordings Had Become Cleaner And Less Cluttered But His Characters Studies Were Just As Vivid And As The Mountain Goats Finally Cohered Into A Stable Lineup With Darnielle Joined By Peter Hughes Matt Douglas And Jon Wurster They Recorded Tuneful Thematically Unified Albums Such As Beat The Champ 2015 And Goths 2017 That Ranked With Their Finest Work.
Darnielle Began The New Millennium With The Coroner's Gambit For Absolutely Kosher Before Signing To 4AD For The Release Of The Surprisingly Polished Tallahassee In 2002. We Shall All Be Healed Followed In 2004 And One Year Later Darnielle Was Back With The Sunset Tree. Remaining As Prolific As Ever Darnielle Turned Away From The Intensity Of The Sunset Tree For A Calmer More Reflective Set Of Songs On 2006's Get Lonely. The Accessible And Assured Heretic Pride Appeared In 2008. Next Up Was The Bible Verse-Inspired The Life Of The World To Come The Group's Sixth Album For 4AD In 2010. Switching To Merge Records In 2011 Darnielle Released All Eternals Deck Which Was Recorded In Four Different Studios In Brooklyn Boston North Carolina And Florida With Four Different Producers -- John Congleton Scott Solter Brandon Eggleston And Morbid Angel Guitarist And Hate Eternal Frontman Erik Rutan -- Helming Various Tracks. That Year The Band Was Also Handpicked By Jeff Mangum Of Neutral Milk Hotel To Perform At The All Tomorrow's Parties Festival That He Was Curating In Minehead England But They Were Ultimately Unable To Appear Due To Scheduling Issues.
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The Mountain Goats Are An American Band Formed In Claremont California By Singer-Songwriter John Darnielle. The Band Is Currently Based In Chapel Hill North Carolina. For Many Years The Sole Member Of The Mountain Goats Was Darnielle Despite The Plural Moniker. The Mountain Goats Are For All Practical Purposes The Endlessly Clever And Prolific John Darnielle And Whatever Musicians He Surrounds Himself With Which Means That While The Soundscape May Change From Project To Project The Overall Tone And Feel Of Darnielle's Work Remains Remarkably Consistent. At His Best He Writes Finely Observed Slightly Surreal Impressionistic Vignettes That Manage To Mix Life As We Live It With Life As We Wish We Could Live It And As Such He Has More In Common With A Novelist Than He Does With The Typical Singer/songwriter Which Is Fitting As He's Also A Published Author. Darnielle's Early Mountain Goats Releases Were Lo-Fi Cassette-Recorded Efforts Cut With A Rotating Lineup Of Musicians Such As 1995's Nine Black Poppies And 2000's The Coroner's Gambit. By 2005's The Sunset Tree His Recordings Had Become Cleaner And Less Cluttered But His Characters Studies Were Just As Vivid And As The Mountain Goats Finally Cohered Into A Stable Lineup With Darnielle Joined By Peter Hughes Matt Douglas And Jon Wurster They Recorded Tuneful Thematically Unified Albums Such As Beat The Champ 2015 And Goths 2017 That Ranked With Their Finest Work.
Darnielle Began The New Millennium With The Coroner's Gambit For Absolutely Kosher Before Signing To 4AD For The Release Of The Surprisingly Polished Tallahassee In 2002. We Shall All Be Healed Followed In 2004 And One Year Later Darnielle Was Back With The Sunset Tree. Remaining As Prolific As Ever Darnielle Turned Away From The Intensity Of The Sunset Tree For A Calmer More Reflective Set Of Songs On 2006's Get Lonely. The Accessible And Assured Heretic Pride Appeared In 2008. Next Up Was The Bible Verse-Inspired The Life Of The World To Come The Group's Sixth Album For 4AD In 2010. Switching To Merge Records In 2011 Darnielle Released All Eternals Deck Which Was Recorded In Four Different Studios In Brooklyn Boston North Carolina And Florida With Four Different Producers -- John Congleton Scott Solter Brandon Eggleston And Morbid Angel Guitarist And Hate Eternal Frontman Erik Rutan -- Helming Various Tracks. That Year The Band Was Also Handpicked By Jeff Mangum Of Neutral Milk Hotel To Perform At The All Tomorrow's Parties Festival That He Was Curating In Minehead England But They Were Ultimately Unable To Appear Due To Scheduling Issues. read less
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Darnielle Began The New Millennium With The Coroner's Gambit For Absolutely Kosher Before Signing To 4AD For The Release Of The Surprisingly Polished Tallahassee In 2002. We Shall All Be Healed Followed In 2004 And One Year Later Darnielle Was Back With The Sunset Tree. Remaining As Prolific As Ever Darnielle Turned Away From The Intensity Of The Sunset Tree For A Calmer More Reflective Set Of Songs On 2006's Get Lonely. The Accessible And Assured Heretic Pride Appeared In 2008. Next Up Was The Bible Verse-Inspired The Life Of The World To Come The Group's Sixth Album For 4AD In 2010. Switching To Merge Records In 2011 Darnielle Released All Eternals Deck Which Was Recorded In Four Different Studios In Brooklyn Boston North Carolina And Florida With Four Different Producers -- John Congleton Scott Solter Brandon Eggleston And Morbid Angel Guitarist And Hate Eternal Frontman Erik Rutan -- Helming Various Tracks. That Year The Band Was Also Handpicked By Jeff Mangum Of Neutral Milk Hotel To Perform At The All Tomorrow's Parties Festival That He Was Curating In Minehead England But They Were Ultimately Unable To Appear Due To Scheduling Issues. read less
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Published: 05 May 2016, 06:41
Beat The Champ Is The Fifteenth Studio Album By The Mountain Goats Released On April 7 2015 On Merge Records. The Release Is A Concept Album On Professional Wrestling Though Frontman John Darnielle Has Stated That Several Of Its Songs Are "really More About Death And Difficult-To-Navigate Interior Spaces Than Wrestling." The Album Was Announced By Merge On January 20 2015 After Which The Second Track "The Legend Of Chavo Guerrero " Was Released For Streaming On The Label's SoundCloud Page. Shortly Afterwards It Became Available For Pre-Order Where The Large Number Of Orders Caused The Site To Crash. The Song Received Praise From From Guerrero As Well His Son Chavo Guerrero Jr. And Guerrero Also Appeared In A Music Video For The Song Alongside Wrestlers Ray Rosas Joey Ryan And Ryan Nemeth. The Second Single And Sixth Track Of The Album Titled "Heel Turn 2" Was Released On Merge Records' SoundCloud Page On February 28 2015. The Following Day It Officially Premiered On An Episode Of The Podcast Welcome To Night Vale. The Album Was Released In Australia And New Zealand On April 3 2015 On Merge Records And Distributed By Remote Control Records In The United States And Canada On April 7 2015 On Merge Records And In Europe On April 13 2015 On Merge Records. Beat The Champ Received Largely Positive Reviews From Contemporary Music Critics. At Metacritic Which Assigns A Normalized Rating Out Of 100 To Reviews From Mainstream Critics The Album Received An Average Score Of 79 Based On 24 Reviews Which Indicates "generally Favorable Reviews". Several Critics Praised Beat The Champ For Providing An Accessible Interpretation Of Professional Wrestling Such That Listeners Not Interested In The Sport Could Still Enjoy The Album. Writing For Exclaim! Jer Fairall Called The Record "yet Another Highlight In A Career Overflowing With Them " In Large Part Due To The Group's "sonic Adventurousness Matched With Darnielle's Singular Presence As A Storyteller And A Songwriter."