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....not even NME can.

Just got this review of our own Darnielle, via 4AD:

The Mountain Goats release a brand new single this week in the shape of
"Palmcorder Yajna". It's the first taste of the music that makes up the album
"We Shall All Be Healed" (which is out at the beginning of February), and it's
available on 7" and CD.

The NME made "Palmcorder Yajna" one of their singles of the week this week -
here's what they had to say :

The Mountain Goats
Palmcorder Yajna (4AD)

The frighteningly prolific Mountain Goats are to all intents and purposes just
one man, John Darnielle, and his boombox. Over the last 11 albums he’s
gradually grown out of bang-on-a-can lo-fi and into one of the most quietly
skilful songwriters of the decade so far. A haunted, lyrical acoustic number
steeped deep in cobwebbed American gothic, “Palmcorder Yajna” finds Darnielle
living out some vivid waking dream, smoking tabs and sharing jokes with the
freaks, junkies and malcontents that roam through his quavering narrative. Yet
there's an eerie cheer to proceedings. Those distant chimes ? It's not
Santa's sleigh. It's the rusted bell of the Grim Reaper, and the Mountain
Goats welcome its every toll with another whisky.

4AD
http://www.4ad.com

Dare I ask if NME has finally learned the meaning of taste? Not bloody likely. Still, tis proof that ILX is conquering the world, slowly but surely.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 11 December 2003 20:31 (twenty-two years ago)

are you saying we get to take credit the TMG?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 11 December 2003 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

are you saying we get to take credit FOR the TMG?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 11 December 2003 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

are you saying we get to take credit for TMG (I need to get offline).

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 11 December 2003 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, the mountain goats and dizzee rascal.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 11 December 2003 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Dude, we can't take cred for his masterpieces, though the outside world don't need to know.

are you saying we get to take credit the TMG?

Give the lad cred? Hell yeah.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 11 December 2003 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)

"Frighteningly prolific." A phrase sure to send chills down J0hn's spine...

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Thursday, 11 December 2003 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)

does this mean he's finally gonna start putting out some hiphop?

― Felcher (Felcher), Thursday, 11 December 2003 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

The new record is excellent, as good or better than Tallahasse.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 11 December 2003 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I really like it.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Thursday, 11 December 2003 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I like Tallahassee more, but I still love the fuck out of the new one.

― M Matos (M Matos), Thursday, 11 December 2003 22:38 (twenty-two years ago)

It took me a while to get into Tallahassee (compared to other TMG stuff anyway, I loved the new one immediately.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Thursday, 11 December 2003 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

i was just playing the new one in the store and someone asked if it was dashboard confessional!

― chaki@work, Thursday, 11 December 2003 22:44 (twenty-two years ago)

chaki, that makes me very sad and i'm sure i'm not the only one.

i like it a lot! though I haven't given it much time yet.. I'll get back to it this weekend

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Thursday, 11 December 2003 23:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone quickly remove the dagger from J0hn's heart.. pronto. There's blood on the floor and there will be more and not just his!

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 11 December 2003 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

i set the kid straight! she was like 13 and we had a good larf. anyway i ended up selling her the new one AND Tallahassee! the new one is beautiful btw and i aint just kissin ass!

― chaki@work, Thursday, 11 December 2003 23:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Yay Chaki! One step at a time.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 December 2003 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

haha i am sure john would be more than pleased with the comparsion

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 11 December 2003 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

$$$$

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 11 December 2003 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

darshboard confessionielle

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 11 December 2003 23:39 (twenty-two years ago)

how did you sell her the new one, I thought it wasn't out until February?

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 11 December 2003 23:42 (twenty-two years ago)

chaki be sellin promos!

― riaao lawyerington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 11 December 2003 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

yah well its a second hand music store

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Friday, 12 December 2003 01:32 (twenty-two years ago)

dude, is it near "see son"?

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 12 December 2003 01:37 (twenty-two years ago)

it isnt

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Friday, 12 December 2003 02:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Is it just me, or does 'Palmcorder Yajna' sound like 'Dead Men Don't Need Season Tickets' by Half Man Half Biscuit?

In any case, the new album is fantastic.

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Friday, 12 December 2003 03:27 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

I see that the Mountain Goats are playing right near me next week, and I was thinking of going just out of curiosity, but unfortunately I am working late that night.

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I may end up at the Knitting Factory show on the 3rd. A couple of my friends are going, and likely they'll try to bring me along. $12 is a lot more money than I really want to spend on a show, though.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Rockist, GO! he's a great performer

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Yus, and tells funny stories and tales. And if you introduce yourself to him -- after the show, please! -- he'll be delighted, he likes meeting up with the ILX peoples.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

He's playing here Sunday I'm very excited! I've always spread the Mt. Goats gospel and I know of at least ten people who are coming to the show from out of town as a result. I've never seen him before, I can hardly wait

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 27 February 2004 03:55 (twenty-two years ago)

piX0rs in Uncut and Mojo (HUGE one in Mojo)! Verily they are pop stars now.

― zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 27 February 2004 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)

(next)friday night show in cambridge!!

― kephm, Friday, 27 February 2004 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, they're playing Nottingham the same night as the Scissor Sisters. Bloody typical. [wanders off muttering]

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 27 February 2004 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

This reminds me of the review of the Mountain Goats in the Metro.

Apparently "Mr D4rn13113 could be the next Conor Oberst, if he tried". (That was a cracking issue of the Metro, up there with Heat on the web footed slebrity day).

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 27 February 2004 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

the metro is only good for the page 1 animal stories

― kephm, Friday, 27 February 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw the esteemed J0hn last night and it was one hell of a show, despite the fact that he was ill.

― mike h. (mike h.), Friday, 27 February 2004 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

The man's a trooper. :-) I think he mentioned to me once about how upset he was that he had to cancel a show somewhere a couple of years back because that was apparently the first time he had EVER done so -- and it was due to circumstances beyond his control.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 February 2004 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I was sort of surprised "Home Against Garden Grove" wasn't the single, that song is just relentless. And the "AHHH-AHH-AHH" thing, wow.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Friday, 27 February 2004 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

oh, finally. After hearing all about it in another thread, I downloaded the new 'Dance Music' from a recent Peel session out of sheer curiosity; honestly, because it was silly that I still hadn't listened to the music of the man whose posts about Steely Dan et al here always blow me away. So, I LOVED the song (esp. 'so this is what the volume knob's for'), and made haste to download a bunch more, all of which I quite enjoyed, esp. We Shall All Be Healed. I put it on CD w/ 'Dance Music' and listened to it for a week. Today, when I finally bought my legit copy to give J0hn his proper royalties, I gave the burnt copy to by best friend to hook him similarily.

what took me so long?

― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 05:42 (twenty-one years ago)

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