The Mountain Goats (en inglés: Las Cabras Montañesas) son una banda americana de Folk- Rock Alternativo e Indie Rock Lo-Fi a cargo de John Darnielle quien es el cantante y compositor principal, con la colaboración de distintos artistas, incluyendo el bajista Peter Hughes y el baterista Jon Wurster (de Superchunk). Darnielle empezó a grabar música en 1991 con ayuda de un grabador boom box. Hasta 2002, con el lanzamiento del álbum All Hail West Texas
¡Cuatro años de duro trabajo!Este mes de mayo cumplimos cuatro años al aire. Seguimos trabajando en la difusión de este maravilloso instrumento, ¡gracias por participar en nuestra historia!
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GC The jacaranda are wet with color, GD and the heat is a great paint brush, lending color to our lives, GC to the air, and to out faces; but I'm going to Alaska GD where there's snow to suck the sound out from the air.
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GC Up, yes, in the branches, GD the purple blossoms, go pale at the edges; GC there is moaning in the shifting of the sap, and I see in them traces GD of last year, but then they hadn't grown so strong, GC and their limbs were more like wires. Now they are cables. GDG thick and alive with alien electricity, and I am going to Alaska, CG where you can go blind just by looking at the ground, D where fat is eaten by itself CG just to keep your body warm.
GC Because from where we are now, it seems, really, GD that everything is growing in a thousand different ways; GC that the soil is soaked through with old blood and with relatives GD who were buried here, or close to here, and they are giving rise GC to what is happening. Or can you tell me otherwise? GD I am going to Alaska, where the animals can kill you, GC but they do so in silence, as though if no-one hears them, GD then it really won't matter. I am going to Alaska. CG They tell me that it's perfect for my purposes.