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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...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/april-28-indonesia-sbc3z85 · 28 Apr 2026
The summer came in carrying spring in its mouth is an incredible first line, and the rest of the song follows as poetic metaphor that starts from love but soars into something elemental. There's an interesting thing happening with John's lyrics as time goe...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/april-26-yoga-6ggbkgj · 26 Apr 2026
Hearing full or even partial band Mountain Goats from this period (this is another Devil in the Shortwave track) is a really interesting experience, because it feels like watching something emerge. This is true nowhere more than in this track, which starts...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/april-25th-jeff-davis-county-blues-2880bg2 · 25 Apr 2026
There's something especially American about the aimless road trip, the small towns flitted through when you're going not towards but away, places that must have their own life but which you only experience as lonely and quiet stops on the way towards you d...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/april-24-store-pqq8fky · 24 Apr 2026
I'm not sure if this is the happiest song about getting a bloody injury, but the only competition I can think is Me And You Against The World by Space, and that's far less of a rousing folk ballad. This is a song about revelation at the wrong moment. The j...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/april-23-color-in-your-cheeks-544yv73 · 23 Apr 2026
God, I needed this today. One of my favourite Mountain Goats songs for years. The best happy songs are the ones that don't bullshit you. They don't pretend that everything's good, or that evil doesn't exist. What they tell you is that the world is fucked b...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/april-22-world-cylinder-rv5duz7 · 22 Apr 2026
This is a goodbye. The last song on an EP about last songs. It's someone not saying what's happening, but not saying it more blatantly than just saying it. One of the most common sentiments of my life - and one of the ones that gets me twisted around mysel...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/april-21-burned-my-tongue-pqt1fky · 21 Apr 2026
An honest to goodness blues song beginning with the words woke up this morning. This has a wonderful smoky uneasy tone to it of someone fundamentally uncomfortable in the world. Trying to live like they know they're supposed to live and finding at each poi...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/april-20-hotel-road-54y5v73 · 20 Apr 2026
I take back any smack I have talked about previous loud tape recorders. And with that momentary swipe I will sit and just listen to this absolutely lovely relaxing beach song. Simple pastoral lyrics of going back to places filled with ghosts. This is a son...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/april-19-jenny-zc2udj6 · 19 Apr 2026
This is the musical equivalent of the moment in a sitcom where someone walks in and everyone applauds. Jenny is a huge figure in the shared fiction that is Mountain Goats songs, a figure of wildness and adoration and chaos and trouble and so much more, and...