The Mountain Goats é o projeto musical do canto/compositor e guitarrista John Darnielle. A revista The New Yorker referiu a ele como "Melhor compositor não-hip-hop da América". No artigo de junho de 2006, revista Paste nominou Darnielle um dos "100 melhores compositores ao vivo". As letras de Darnielle são literais e repletas com imaginário com referências da literatura clássica, religião e mitologia, cultura pop, arte, e história. Outros possuem vagas referências ao seu padrasto
Quatro anos de trabalho duro!Neste mês de maio fizemos quatro anos no ar. Continuamos trabalhando na divulgação deste maravilhoso instrumento, obrigado por participar da nossa história!
The Mountain Goats - Dinu Lipatti's Bones -----------------------------------------
CE we stank of hair dye and ammonia. FC we sealed ourselves away from view. E you were looking at the void and sat unblinking. FCFG the best that I could do was to train my eyes on you.
FC we scaled the hidden hills beneath the surface, FC scraped our fingers bloody on the stones. FCEm and built our little house that we could live in FC out of dinu lapatti's bones.
we kept our friends at bay all summer long. treated the days as if they'd kill us if they could. ringing out the hours like blood drenched bed sheets to keep winter time at bay but december showed up anyway.
there was no money it was money that you wanted. I went downtown, sold off most of what I owned. and we raised a tower to broadcast all our dark dreams from dinu lapatti's bones.