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https://miscellany.pckt.blog/march-24-dutch-orchestra-blues-5e2dv73 · 28 Mar 2026
Not a blues, let's start there. Which is pedantic and silly about a song that's joyful and silly. And also sad. This is a sing about faith in the hidden things. About yearning for the reassurance that better things are happening somewhere, just a little to...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/march-23-cobscook-bay-pt5qfky · 27 Mar 2026
I don't know if this is the first time I've heard an electric guitar in a Mountain Goats song, but it's certainly one of the earliest examples to leap out at me, an electric sound with vibrato buit no distortion, in a full background of instrumentation. Th...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/march-22-golden-boy-5edzv73 · 26 Mar 2026
What a delightful whimsical little song. Edges of Big Rock Candy Mountain, with the sort of sincerity of someone who with their entire heart and soul believe they are being a lil goof. Done with anything less than sincerity, done with horror of horrors iro...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/march-21-treetop-song-h95xt4e · 25 Mar 2026
I can feel the landscape of this song. It's an early morning, some fog in the air, and there's a calm in the air. And somewhere within that a fantasy made of choppy guitar and harmonica. It's a small one, this. A quick scene that is the edge of pastoral, w...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/march-20-narakaloka-wrfz64p · 25 Mar 2026
Welcome back tape hum. John sets a table here, a beautiful domestic scene of a garden being planted, a kitchen being outfitted, a series of events that will survive the singer. This is a small gem, a bleak song of hope. Things pass, but we can make sure th...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/march-19-song-for-the-julian-calendar-4xcda1t · 24 Mar 2026
A couple of songs into Full Force Galesberg and the first thing that is striking me about this record is how much fuller the sound is than what has come before. Not just that there are more instruments, but that this album's exploration of the folk space i...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/march-18-original-air-blue-gown-86jxnwy · 24 Mar 2026
It's late. Not absurdly late, not so late it's actually early again. But, like 1:30. There's a party going on nearby, and you're not quite at it. You were at it, but the house has a porch and you didn't want that many people near you. You're talking to a c...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/march-17-calcutta-ptrxfky · 23 Mar 2026
It's not March 17, it's March 23rd, and I have the kind of cold and headache that mean I'm only vaguely tethered to reality. Perfect time to hear a Mountain Goats song from the fringes of existence. This was apparently only played live once. Hard to think ...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/march-16-cutter-qzvg9a9 · 22 Mar 2026
OK, so full disclosure: I've been on holiday and am currently sick for the second time since the last block update I did. This is why these are late and why this is incoherent. Makes sense therefore that this is a sort of hidden track, with only live versi...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/march-15-masher-tsk4qge · 15 Mar 2026
Floating away on the guitar of this song, so much of a woodland pastoral, the sound of double the expected strings out under a canopy of trees. This is a song of solitude, which is a different thing from loneliness, it's the sound of someone far beyond soc...