The Mountain Goats Archives

News: The Mountain Goats announce first Australia and New Zealand tour in nearly a decade

The Mountain Goats will tour Australia and New Zealand in April 2026, their first visit to the region in nearly a decade, alongside the release of their 24th album Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan.

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Album Reviews

Album Review: The Mountain Goats – ‘Dark in Here’

If there was a way in which one could imagine themselves frozen in time, Dark in Here would be the soundtrack for that moment. Sincere, grounded, beaming with analogue sound…

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Track: The Mountain Goats relish in Wild West psychedelia with ‘Dark In Here’

CALIFORNIAN staple The Mountain Goats have released the title track “Dark in Here” ahead of their album, out on June 25th on Merge Records. Led by songwriter John Darnielle, the…

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Track: The Mountain Goats drop ‘The Slow Parts On Death Metal Albums’ and announce a tour Stateside

IS IT time that John Darnielle’s purveyors of the great Americana dream, The Mountain Goats, received an award for industry? In the accursed year of our Lord, 2020, when the…

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News: The Mountain Goats announce an album for late June, laid down in Muscle Shoals; hear the warm country rock of ‘Mobile’

THEY’RE nothing if not prolific and industrious, John Darnielle’s much-loved exponents of Americana, The Mountain Goats. It was only a year or so ago that John was in conversation with NPR about…

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SEE: Mountain Goats – ‘As Many Candles As Possible’: monochrome prophecies from their second of the year

PRODIGIOUS and fiercely loved East Coaster indie-folk outfit The Mountain Goats have announced their second album of 2020, Getting Into Knives, an album which they describe as “ … perfect…

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