As teased, the Mountain Goats have released a new album via Merge. This one’s called Songs for Pierre Chuvin. According to a press release, it’s the first time since 2002’s All Hail West Texas that John Darnielle has recorded an album entirely on his boombox.
Fittingly, a cassette edition of the album is due June 19. Listen to Songs for Pierre Chuvin below. “SO THIS TAPE STARTED while the entire band was decamped at an undisclosed location working on the next Mountain Goats album, and I had brought books with me to read, and one of them was Pierre Chuvin’s A Chronicle of the Last Pagans” Darnielle said in a statement. “At our undisclosed location, one morning, immersed day and night in our work but also beginning to get the feeling that the
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