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https://miscellany.pckt.blog/may-9-alpha-rats-nest-exf848c · 9 May 2026
Sometimes things creep up on you. They become true over a course of enough time that by the time you realise it you're realising what has happened not what is happening. So it is with this song and the realisation that Mountain Goats have gone from being a...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/may-8-see-america-right-d1rv23r · 8 May 2026
Your love is like a cyclone in a swamp is one of the lines of all time. This is an intense song of chaos, in the intense part of a relationship going bad. John's alpha couple have many twists and turns on their way to purgatory, but this one is particularl...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/may-7-oceanographers-choice-ge7k55y · 7 May 2026
A driving bop, full of energy. Starts with stabbing Superman with a broadsword and goes up from there. This is full of energy, admittedly dark energy, and is a packed fantasia of fraught things happening to fraught people. It's also... and even as I type t...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/may-6-the-house-that-dripped-blood-47f3a1t · 6 May 2026
There is something delightfully sleazy about the instrumentation of this song. I'm getting a strong dose of PJ Harvey. More than that, this is a song with swagger in a way that feels new to Mountain Goats songs. The wild harmonica at the end gives this is ...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/may-5th-southwood-plantation-road-zcw0dj6 · 5 May 2026
A secret small love of mine: songs where someone sings la la la la We're wandering still further into Tallahassee, reaching what might be thought of as an upswing in the dysfunctional relationship that is this couple. There is happiness here, albeit a desp...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/may-4-first-few-desperate-hours-d16g23r · 4 May 2026
It continues to interest me how much more complete Tallahassee feels as a sound for a band than the previous Mountain Goats albums, and band is the word here. There are at maximum three instruments playing at the same time here, not counting John's voice, ...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/may-3-tallahassee-f9dfhyp · 3 May 2026
In retrospect this song is a thumping great mission statement. It's the first track on one of the two most pivotal Mountain Goats albums, with All Hail West Texas being the perfection of the Guitar and buzzing tape recorder era, and Tallahassee being the s...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/may-2-old-college-try-hs2wt4e · 2 May 2026
All right folks, it's taken us four months but we've reached Tallahassee. And we're starting off with one of the most genuinely wonderful songs on this album. An ode to exhausted but still kicking love. Toxic, poisoned, bleeding, but still real and powerfu...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/may-1-twelve-hands-high-6gv1kgj · 1 May 2026
Technically this isn't a Mountain Goats song. It's instead a song by The Extra Glenns, a band consisting of John Darnielle and Franklin Bruno. But what it actually is is a lovely bop with some honky tonk piano and delightful guitars. As for the narrative o...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/april-29-insurance-fraud-2-d1nr23r · 29 Apr 2026
My Don't commit insurance fraud, it's not worth it song has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the song. In all seriousness, this is a delightful, ominous song about love burning down, which is a common theme in this era of Mountain Goats...