The Mountain Goats Set June Release For New Album 'Dark In Here', Post First Single Mobile
Tuesday, 20 April 2021
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Jade Wilson
The Mountain Goats have shared details of their 20th studio album, 'Dark In Here'.
The follow-up to 2020's 'Getting Into Knives' and 'Songs for Pierre Chuvin' will arrive on June 25 via Merge Records. It was recorded over seven days at Alabama's Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, between the sessions for its predecessors, just as the coronavirus pandemic hit.
Alongside the news, the band have unveiled the record's mellow first single, Mobile, which combines guitar and piano from famed session players Spooner Oldham and Will McFarlane. The band's bassist Peter Hughes said:
"The Mountain Goats have been playing together as a band long enough to have developed a degree of musical telepathy, but listening to these two guys responding in real time to us and each other revealed another level of connectedness altogether, one bordering on the supernatural. We ran through most of these songs three times; I'm pretty sure the performance of Mobile you’re hearing is a second take."
Discussing its lyrical motivation, he added: "One of my quarantine projects after getting home was going back to Moby Dick and actually finishing it for once, and I was amused to encounter early on the retelling of the story of Jonah. If Melville gives it to us as a fiery 19th century New Bedford sermon, what Mobile offers might be understood as Father Mapple's modern-day Gulf Coast flip side, the breeziness of McFarlane's electric guitar and Matt Douglas’ accordion belying its protagonist's guilty conscience."
'Dark In Here' tracklist:
1. Parisian Enclave
2. The Destruction of the Kola Superdeep Borehole Tower
3. Mobile
4. Dark In Here
5. Lizard Suit
6. When a Powerful Animal Comes
7. To The Headless Horseman
8. The New Hydra Collection
9. The Slow Parts on Death Metal Albums
10. Before I Got There
11. Arguing With the Ghost of Peter Laughner About His Coney Island Baby Review
12. Let Me Bathe in Demonic Light
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