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https://miscellany.pckt.blog/february-7-snow-crush-killing-song-rrzuz7s · 10 Feb 2026
"I know you're changing, god damn you for that" Sometimes love hurts. Sometimes love causes us to hurt. This is a song under a snow drift about the passage of time and the fact that the only way to stop it moving is to kill it, and the times where that alm...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/february-6-third-snow-song-uuyg9ne · 9 Feb 2026
not much to say about this one, which isn't the same as not liking it. It's a small punchy account from the singer's life, a story of being unprepared for the cold in a cold place, with cheerful and warm guitar behind it. This is a tough year. We're all ha...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/february-5-the-recognition-scene-ttsqge2 · 9 Feb 2026
First appearance in this collection so far of the albun Sweden, which is not about Sweden. There's a small time jump here and it's clear in the confidence and assurance of how the lyrics work with the vocals, on top of a simple but effective guitar through...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/february-4-going-to-tennessee-qqs9a9m · 9 Feb 2026
The beauty of the Mountain Goats as a band, a project, whatever, is that they know no limits in terms of genre or experimentation. ThHis is especially true later in the band's progression, but even close-ish to the start as we are now the progress of liste...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/february-3-pure-heat-5ggv73t · 9 Feb 2026
There's something calypso-like about the instrumentation of this song, small and jaunty and with an odd sadness behind it. This sadness is enhanced through the lyrics, which much like much Mountain Goats from this time, are laced with loneliness and regret...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/february-2-going-to-jamaica-qfp9a9m · 2 Feb 2026
This is a big open song with big open chords, giving an odd and apocalyptic vision of a fading world. Flowers in dry soil, the birds fleeing for another world, a sense of survivors in a place for the last time This is an empty song. Not in the sense of it ...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/january-24-going-to-kirby-sigston-yk3e174 · 24 Jan 2026
The words that jump into my head when I hear this song for the first time are "jangly pastoral". It's upbeat, slightly spiky, and giving a view of a place of if not home then at least rest. Eating cold black eggs all day as the wind kicked up. Kirby Sigsto...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/january-23-noctifer-birmingham-fmvhypx · 23 Jan 2026
Something about this song feels like a dream. The sort of not quite asleep, not quite fully awake place where the mind creates things and latches them on to actual sensation. It's a place where Nick Drake lived a lot, and much of the instrumentation in thi...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/january-22-love-cuts-the-strings-g8t55y6 · 22 Jan 2026
This song is a rolling stampede, and a mark of John's ever increasing assurance on all fronts of his musicality. It's urgent in tone, in tempo, and in subject, and like the best Mountain Goats songs it universalises through close examination. I often wish ...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/january-21-chinese-rifle-song-zprdj6c · 21 Jan 2026
There's an interesting strolling pace to this song that put me in mind of some banjo folk I've heard, which might be why this song felt like it was in a country-and-blues-adjacent space. The repeated refrain of laying out on the patio gave this a musical s...