The Mountain Goats "Tallahassee" 2023-03-17 and toppling oppression

and toppling oppression

despite Mustaine's claims to the contrary

" "X-Ray Mind

and out comes a song like "Maps" or "Zero" or the latest addition to their canon

Last Rights was well received and named by Alternative Press as one of the best albums of the 1990s and was the band's first release to chart on the Billboard 200

The Mountain Goats "Tallahassee" 2023-03-17 and toppling oppressionJohn Darnielle's songs have always dwelled on one or a combination of five subjects, relationship conflicts, flood, water, pre Colombian Mexico mythology and talking animals. This record conjures paranoid visions of a couple permanently on the cusp of divorce who have remained drunk for so long, they're not sure of much else beyond the mutually destructive urge that holds their house together.