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!
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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.