The Mountain Goats

i like the olympics-do-hildegard-von-bingen number

"sapphire trans am
high beams in vain
drive wild broncos
down the plain"

^damn

"high beams in rain" innit?

and yeah DJP, "estate sale sign" is the fuckin' jam (that part of me secretly hoped the whole album would sound like). the lyrics! the delivery! the drums! the strums! "EVERY MARTYR IN THIS JUNGLE / IS GONNA GET HIS WISH!!!"

"Age of Kings" is fucking incredible, I am dying over the strings

whole record

so great

so there's pretty much no graceful way of revealing this, but I did the vocal arrangement on "High Hawk Season" and am singing the middle part along with two of my college buddies (which is why I have refrained from commenting on that particular song, which on its surface should be total "DJP comments on this immediately" catnip)

!

woah! rad!

If you play the part backwards you hear Dan invoking Satan by saying "HI DERE WAHT IS IT MAED"

Nice!

so there's pretty much no graceful way of revealing this, but I did the vocal arrangement on "High Hawk Season" and am singing the middle part along with two of my college buddies (which is why I have refrained from commenting on that particular song, which on its surface should be total "DJP comments on this immediately" catnip)

― DJP, Monday, February 28, 2011 5:12 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

:D

yay DJP, and yay ILM :)

PS it is still early but I think I am going to enjoy this album a lot.

hey dan congrats! that is awesome! i was thinking it was kinda goth barbershop quartet in a way. great song.

omg you have no idea how happy I am right now

congrats, dan! The anticipation is too much.

i like the olympics-do-hildegard-von-bingen number

would rescind this if it was not mad complimentary

I was sleeping hardcore and missed that the first time around, ha

album cover is great

his black album?

yeah <3 the typography.

i know jd doesn't like to answer work related ?s but i have always been curious as to what 4AD's policies are w/r/t album art, because every time a band that didn't start on 4AD -- like for example the goats, blonde redhead, or TV on the Radio -- sign to 4AD all of a sudden their album covers totally start to look like 4AD albums

wau @ dan

xpost -- this one's on Merge, Matt!

yeah that's what i mean, this one looks sorta not-4AD in a way i can't quite describe...

maybe i'm nuts tho, but i feel like i can eyeball a 4AD record at 50 paces

DJP awesome work
Bright Mountain Choir Men's Division

high five DJP

the raddest of collabs

"outer scorpion squadron" is really really beautiful

it sounds like nothing else in the back catalog

this is awesome so far (4 tracks in)

i was gonna wait to listen to the full album on release (still am, probably, because i like to hear things in hi-fi, not NPR webstream quality) but there's no way i couldn't listen to "high hawk season" and holy shit this is incredible

yeah this is really nice on first listen. the production is bugging me a bit, i feel like it's a bit underarranged and empty on some tracks, but that's probably because i'm mentally comparing it to Heretic Pride which to me is definitely the best-sounding mountain goats album in terms of production and use of space.

but yeah the songs are good as always!

i really like "spare" mountain goats—not so much the early lo-fi stuff, but like, get lonely + the life of blah blah... both totally great. excellent restrained arrangements, flat-out gorgeous production. i haven't listened to heretic pride too much (compared to the other 4ad albums) for some reason, need to pull it out again.

omg 'for charles bronson' FEATURING BOARDS OF CANADA :D

haha 'this song is called 'for charles bronson'' made me lol at my desk today

i am super excited about this (omg dan!) but i'm gonna wait until release day and buy it i think.

Loving this on first listen, kudos JD (and DP!)

prowl great cain is pretty oustanding; i especially love the ending

i don't listen to the mountain goats but it was hilarious when john self-banned cause he had to finish writing this album. kind of makes me want to hear it. tho i guess an album written in between intermittent bursts of ilx would be even better

^^^ don't like to post on this thread but the person you cite wrapped the album in August, December thing was diff

Elsewhere on the tMG front:

Hi, friends. If you're not familiar with The Best Show on WFMU, the show that has provided three hours of Mirth, Music and Mayhem every Tuesday for over a decade on WFMU thanks to geniuses Tom Scharpling (brilliant host, writer, producer and director--most recently for the New Pornographers' "Moves" video and Ted Leo's "Bottled in Cork" video) and Jon Wurster (brilliant comedian, writer and drummer for Superchunk, The Mountain Goats, Bob Mould, A.C. Newman and others), I'd love for you to become that way (here--you're welcome: http://wfmu.org/playlists/BD). If you are already amongst the throngs of TBS devotees, you won't balk at what I'm asking, which is for you to help spread the word about the Best Show pledge drive happening tonight (March 1st) and next Tuesday, March 8th. PLEASE repost this, tweet it, call people about it--and call in yourself and pledge. Don't worry--aside from the inherent joys of giving, there's a lot in it for you. Tom explains below:

"WFMU is a listener-sponsored station that doesn't take corporate sponsorships or sleazy grants that would compromise our ability to be 100% freeform. I am doing two fundraising shows for the station during our two-week marathon - Tuesday March 1st and Tuesday March 8th, from 9-midnight EST. I'm offering a premium called the DONT STOP ME NOW FANTASY PACK. Any pledge for 75 dollars or more automatically secures it. The pack consists of:

RATED G.G. - a vinyl single comprised of songs by notorious scum rocker GG Allin cleaned up and recorded by people exclusively for this single! The single will feature tracks by BEN GIBBARD, THE MOUNTAIN GOATS, TY SEGALL, FUCKED UP and TED LEO! There will also be a bonus DIGITAL DOWNLOAD of the single that will feature additional content by HOME BLITZ, SCHARPLING AND WURSTER and MORE!

The single will not be for sale in stores and will only be available by pledging DURING MY MARATHON SHOW!

(There's also other stuff in the pack besides the single obv.)

listened this morning; super, even w/ a head cold (mine)

Yah, was listening to this in the car via NPR iphone app on the way home from my mom's chemo. A+++ work on the vocals stuff, Dan. Some of these songs remind me of late-period Walk-Ins, which is a VERY GOOD THING.

Hi, I'm new here, and I love tMGs

hi jacob

listened to the new album yet? any thoughts?

Heck yeah, I love it! It's different and all but I'm really loving it. Can't wait to hear the real thing instead of the crappy NPR stream though. (not that I don't appreciate your amazingness NPR)
I was trolling through here and read something about one of you guys being one of the backup singers in high hawk season, were you serious?

Nah he wasn't serious. No-one on ilx knows J0hn Darn3ll3. Nope, not here.

lol :)

For the record I think Jacob was asking about DJP? Who apparently did do some arranging & voc'ing on the record, which is fuckin rad. Wherever this goth barbershop quartet sings I'm getting my next haircut there for sure.