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But these CDs contain minutes' worth of 81 songs. That's a geyser of simple sandwiches. Chain-Wallet: I too am inclined to despair.

I owned these songs in their vinyl, cassette, and compilation CD formats, makeshift covers and all. I even bought a freestanding CD burner with an analog input jack to make my own rarities discs.

My check to Sing Eunuchs, signed by Simon Joyner himself, is still taped to my ukulele. I even bought the original release of Protein Source of the Future These songs have been with me too long. I feel as if I've been asked to discuss my own foot. What are you going to do with that archive of rarities now that these capsules exist?

God: Affiliate me not with the genesis of eBay. My designs are much more complicated and counterintuitive-- grasshoppers, pineapples, tuberculosis.

Sorry, I'm ranting. Haircut: Perhaps the only strategy for comprehending these sacred texts would be for us to recount all that Darnielle has given us, even if we're made to feel like mere information-dispensers, or ATMs, in doing so.

Chain-Wallet: Firstly, these screeds ain't chronological, yet each disc evokes its own Mountain Goats "period. The songs amble through the speakers' doom-sap and analyze love's overpromises. The narrators are viziers of tiny, silly empires, and Darnielle knows it-- his liner notes indicate that they project "near-apocalyptic weight to their petty grievances. Haircut: Standouts include, but are not limited to, the annihilation-obsessed "Two Thousand Seasons", during which Darnielle is accompanied only by some kind of breezily buzzing whirligig, and "Billy the Kid's Dream of the Magic Shoes", a perfect example of Darnielle's singular penchant for clashing archetypes here the outlaw-awaiting-death tradition meets a child's escapist fantasy.

As the shortest of these three discs, and since it compiles several longer short projects four-, five-, and eight-song releases , Protein plays like a mid-career full-length rather than a lost-back-catalog goulash. Chain-Wallet: Which brings us to the considerably less twilit, and less ingratiating, Bitter Melon Farm. Darnielle's notes admit that its songs are "strays" and that the bitterness in the title explicitly refers to how they might be swallowed.

For some nebulous reason, this disc has an estate-sale grab-bag feel-- sure, you get a lot for your money, but a lot of what? Explore music. Get fresh music recommendations delivered to your inbox every Friday. Goths by The Mountain Goats. This album, however, is probably the best thing the band has yet done. The music is sophisticated-- a confluence of jazz and folk, more than goth, but the influence of early goth music is there, as is a subtle humor.

I am really impressed by this and I've been listening to it a lot. Mike Swag. Luke Berrie. Luke Berrie Gorgeous record about a moment in time that came and left, but still had an impact on the world today. The Mountain Goats best album in years. Favorite track: Abandoned Flesh. Robert Chitoiu.

Plum Grenadier. We Free Bees. Grace Persephone Kelly. Punk With A Camera. Michael Perry. Dave Beynon. Penis Thigh Trap. Everett Hyatt. Michael Heimbaugh. Jeff Shute. Ryan Remains. Song for John Davis. Stars Around Her. Going to Port Washington. Blood Royal. The Only Thing I Know. Raja Vocative. Hatha Hill. Going to Kirby Sigston. Please Come Home to Hamngatan.

Orange Ball of Peace. Standard Bitter Love Song 8. Chino Love Song Going to Jamaica. Alpha Gelida. Wid Palm City. The Ango-Saxons. Flight Going to Denmark. The Admonishing Song. Anti Music Song. Going to Hungary. Earth Air Water Trees.

Creature Song.