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Mountain Goats announce new album and download
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 31 July 2009
Yay, we like The Mountain Goats. You should too. Oh, you do. Good. Anyway, they (or he, depending on how you want to look at it) have recorded a new album, called ‘The Life Of The World To Come’, due for release in October. String arrangements on the album were handled by Final Fantasy/Arcade Fire man Owen Pallett, because it is now the law that he does all string arrangements on everything.
A quick glance at the tracklisting below will tell you that all the songs on the album are based on passages from the Bible. Here’s what main goat John Darnielle has to say about all that: “I guess the obvious question is going to be: ‘John, have you had some sort of religious awakening?’ and while I guess lots of people might want to be coy about answering that, that’s never really been my style, so: no. It’s not like that. It’s not some heavy-narrative-distance deal either, though, and it’s not a screed. It’s twelve new songs: twelve hard lessons the Bible taught me, kind of. More than that I’d want to wait to say until some people have heard it, which won’t be long”.
No, in fact, it’ll be now. You can download ‘Genesis 3:23’ from here.
And here’s that tracklisting we mentioned:
1 Samuel 15:23
Psalms 40:2
Genesis 3:23
Philippians 3:20-21
Hebrews 11:40
Genesis 30:3
Romans 10:9
1 John 4:16
Matthew 25:21
Deuteronomy 2:10
Isaiah 45:23
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