Lav's Music Corner

The Mountain Goats are a long running California indie rock project of John Darnielle known mostly for their highly conceptual projects like All Hail West Texas  and The Sunset Tree  in the 2000's as well as Beat The Champ  and Goths  in the 2010's. Getting Into Knives  is the 2nd album from the band this year following Songs For Pierre Chuvin  which was released earlier this year when the bands tour was cancelled. Review By Lavender: While I've never been a massive John Darnielle stan I do enjoy a lot of The Mountain Goats music. While All Hail West Texas  has always been a favorite of mine just a few years ago I rekindled with the band on their great record Goths . Since then I haven't been particularly impressed given that their last record let me down a bit and I didn't have much of anything to say about their record from earlier this year. I enjoyed a couple of the singles leading up to Getting Into Knives  that had me excited but ultimately...

The Mountain Goats are a long running indie project based in North Carolina that is focused around singer-songwriter John Darnielle. They have over 25 years of history diving into numerous concepts and transitioning through different sounds and styles. In League With Dragons  features a wide variety of personnel and was labelled by Darnielle as a "rock Opera" with influences from various literary sources.  Review By Lavender: Despite the fact that I believe Darnielle is quite talented and that the band reps my home state of North Carolina I haven't been the biggest Mountain Goats fan. Most of their material in the 2010's struck me as creative, but not essential. There is almost always a baseline element of songwriting and there is almost never a drowning in influences or contemporary sounds and that is as true as ever here, but once again the band fails to make a significant mark on me. The lead single for this album didn't thrill me straight away, ...