Mountain Goats Get Biblical On New LP

Sneak peak MP3 below.

By Blurt Staff

BLURT faves the Mountain Goats - John Darnielle, Peter Hughes and Jon Wurster -have their latest 4AD Records album released on Oct. 6 titled The Life of the World to Come. It features string arrangements by Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy/Arcade Fire) and is described as "less a profession of religious faith than an immersion in Biblical poetry and imagery... songs take their names from verses that informed or inspired them, or which, sometimes, came up against them at right angles."

Indeed, as the titles, listed below, indicate.

This will be the sixth MG album for 4AD and the followup to last year's Heretic Pride. Here's what BLURT had to say about that release:

John Darnielle has always been too good to be a folkie-tinged singer-songwriter; his eye for detail and strong characterizations belong in a short story collection. After abandoning his lo-fi experiments of the ‘90s, his post-millennium records have focused on an imaginary battling couple and his own tortured life. This time out, the songs were not only written at different locales but also reflect that in their settings, including California, Brooklyn, China, the Deep South, Portland and Berlin. Everywhere he goes, Darnielle's overcome by the heat and bitter relationships. But from the angry, piano-tingled title song to the desperate, devastating "Craters of the Moon" ("I can't live like this anymore!") to the bloody flash-rock of "Lovecraft in Brooklyn," he channels his anger and romantic disappointment into grist for some of his strongest songs in a while. Just be glad that he lives out in his stunning noir fantasies in songs instead of going postal.

Check out this advance MP3 - sounds like a cross between the late, great Miracle Legion and the Go-Betweens, but still classic Darnielle of course.

"Genesis 3:23"

Tracklisting:

1. 1 Samuel 15:23
2. Psalms 40:2
3. Genesis 3:23
4. Philippians 3:20-21
5. Hebrews 11:40
6. Genesis 30:3
7. Romans 10:9
8. 1 John 4:16
9. Matthew 25:21
10. Deuteronomy 2:10
11. Isaiah 45:23
12. Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace