One of the first things I notice about this song, and I'll confess it's not one I'd heard before now, is something very familiar. An old friend from countless other places: the soft musical drone of John Darnielle's tape recorder. This is early Mountain Go...

So I'm compulsive about signing up for new things and then not using them. Over the more than two decades that blogging has been a thing I've probably made more than twenty and not used them because there's something terrifying about the blank feed that co...