On their first album for Merge Records, The Mountain Goats tackle mysticism and dread in the only way they know how: with bright, folky songs and John Darnielle’s inimitable, fervent voice. Taking its name from a made-up deck of tarot cards, All Eternals Deck dips into summery acoustic pop (“Birth of Serpents”), lonely piano ballads (“Outer Scorpion Squadron”) and even a barbershop quartet sing-along (“High Hawk Season”), and underlines all the complex, emotionally loaded lyricism that Darnielle has come to perfect.
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- The Extra Lens
- AJJ
- Young Man
- The Magnetic Fields
- Titus Andronicus
- Shearwater