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Track List
01) Done Bleeding
02) Younger
03) Passaic 1975
04) Clemency for the Wizard King
05) Possum by Night
06) In League With Dragons
07) Doc Gooden
08) Going Invisible 2
09) Waylon Jennings Live!
10) Cadaver Sniffing Dog
11) An Antidote for Strychnine
12) Sicilian Crest
01) Done Bleeding
02) Younger
03) Passaic 1975
04) Clemency for the Wizard King
05) Possum by Night
06) In League With Dragons
07) Doc Gooden
08) Going Invisible 2
09) Waylon Jennings Live!
10) Cadaver Sniffing Dog
11) An Antidote for Strychnine
12) Sicilian Crest
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"In League With Dragons" is the seventeenth studio album by the Mountain Goats, released on April 26, 2019, on Merge Records. Inspired by tabletop role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, the album has been described as a "partial rock opera" with influences from noir literature.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 77 (based on 14 reviews) indicating "generally favorable reviews."
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Despite its title and the winged green monster on the record’s album art, In League With Dragons is light on mythical beasts; only four songs here come from the original wizard musical Darnielle was writing. Instead, he fills the record with the subjects of his own escapist fantasies. “Doc Gooden” depicts the former Mets pitcher recounting his glory days: “When my name was everywhere/None of you were there.” On “Passiac 1975,” Darnielle sings from the perspective of his own personal wizard, Ozzy Osbourne. In what is possibly the gentlest song about The Prince of Darkness, we hear about the less glamorous moments in the life of Ozzy: “In a Holiday Inn by a nameless river/Renew the assault on my lungs and my liver.” Over the years, Darnielle has excelled at exploiting fallibility and irony for humor, and that shines through on the chorus, delivered in his best “We Are The World” voice: “Tell the crowd, tell the world/I want everyone to get high.”
Darnielle has increasingly distanced himself from those scrappy, acoustic recordings, adding in a full band, and, on the Mountain Goats’ last record, ridding himself of the guitar completely. Here, producer Owen Pallett adds orchestral flourishes, wind instruments, and delicate finger-picked guitar, resulting in one of the Mountain Goats’ most wide-ranging records.
Reviewed by Arielle Gordon for pitchfork.com.
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"In League With Dragons" is the seventeenth studio album by the Mountain Goats, released on April 26, 2019, on Merge Records. Inspired by tabletop role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, the album has been described as a "partial rock opera" with influences from noir literature.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 77 (based on 14 reviews) indicating "generally favorable reviews."
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Despite its title and the winged green monster on the record’s album art, In League With Dragons is light on mythical beasts; only four songs here come from the original wizard musical Darnielle was writing. Instead, he fills the record with the subjects of his own escapist fantasies. “Doc Gooden” depicts the former Mets pitcher recounting his glory days: “When my name was everywhere/None of you were there.” On “Passiac 1975,” Darnielle sings from the perspective of his own personal wizard, Ozzy Osbourne. In what is possibly the gentlest song about The Prince of Darkness, we hear about the less glamorous moments in the life of Ozzy: “In a Holiday Inn by a nameless river/Renew the assault on my lungs and my liver.” Over the years, Darnielle has excelled at exploiting fallibility and irony for humor, and that shines through on the chorus, delivered in his best “We Are The World” voice: “Tell the crowd, tell the world/I want everyone to get high.”
Darnielle has increasingly distanced himself from those scrappy, acoustic recordings, adding in a full band, and, on the Mountain Goats’ last record, ridding himself of the guitar completely. Here, producer Owen Pallett adds orchestral flourishes, wind instruments, and delicate finger-picked guitar, resulting in one of the Mountain Goats’ most wide-ranging records.
Reviewed by Arielle Gordon for pitchfork.com.
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