View basket “Goodbye Kiss” has been added to your basket. View basket “Full Moon” has been added to your basket. Dark in Here Mountain Goats, The SKU: 23.00 29.00 £23.00 - £29.00 £23.00 - £29.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Merge Records Released Date: 25th June 2021 Buying Format: 2LP Coloured Vinyl Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code 2LP Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code Buying Options Choose an option2LP Coloured Vinyl Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code2LP Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download CodeClear Dark in Here quantity Add to basket ReserveBack Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info When the Mountain Goats got together in March 2020, it was to make not one album, but two. The idea was to again work with Matt Ross-Spang, the dashing Memphis wunderkind. Matt pitched we spend a week at Sam Phillips Recording, his home base in Memphis, followed by another at the storied FAME Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, a plan that dovetailed nicely with John’s notion of corralling these songs into two complementary batches: one light, one dark. The Memphis album Getting Into Knives, would be brighter, bolder, marked by rich and vibrant hues; the Muscle Shoals album Dark in Here, is quieter, smokier, but more deeply textured and intense. We were all aware of the mythos surrounding FAME. The second you step inside you transport to its early ’60s heyday and its louche mid-’70s denouement. The room we set up in is the room where Percy Sledge sang “When a Man Loves a Woman” and where Aretha Franklin recorded “I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You).” The Wurlitzer with which Spooner Oldham opens the last? It’s sitting right there. Spooner is living musical history, having played with everyone from Bob Dylan and Neil Young to Linda Ronstadt and Liberace, for crying out loud. And Spooner is all over Dark in Here any time you hear a bit of Hammond organ or electric piano chiming in without repeating a phrase. We tracked the album’s one outright banger, “The Destruction of the Kola Superdeep Borehole Tower,” live with Spooner, and “Mobile” and “Dark in Here” with guitarist Will McFarlane another local veteran who played with Bonnie Raitt for years. We only had Spooner for two afternoons, though, and Will for just one. After it was just the four of us: John playing acoustic guitar and occasional piano, the rhythm section of drummer Jon Wurster and myself, and our jack-of-all-trades Matt Douglas picking up everything else. The result is something more stripped down and intimate than the lush arrangements of Getting Into Knives. Of “The Slow Parts on Death Metal Albums,” John concedes that the song is autobiographical. While the lines, “In a new universe / trying to find the mask that fits me” would take on a newly literal connotation in the weeks to come, the song is about going to late ‘80s metal shows at Fender’s Ballroom in Long Beach, and about seeking a sense of identity and community in strange and occasionally forbidding places. This theme feeling at once conspicuous and invisible, the frustrated craving for acceptance is echoed elsewhere. Then there are elegies to lost causes, some big and institutional (“The Destruction of the Kola Superdeep Borehole Tower”), some small and personal (“Arguing With the Ghost of Peter Laughner About His Coney Island Baby Review,” a tribute to David Berman, whose return from self-imposed musical exile had been cause for huge celebration in our camp). “Before I Got There” neglects to identify its victims, or the tragedy that’s befallen them. John writes in the liner notes that “if you’re looking for a governing theme here, it’s calamity, as all the songs are either anticipating one or reflecting one that’s already happened.” Peter Hughes, Rochester, March 2021. Artist Mountain Goats, The Genre Americana / Country Label Merge Records Buying Options 2LP Coloured Vinyl Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code , 2LP Gatefold Sleeve Includes Download Code Format 2LP , Coloured Vinyl , Gatefold Sleeve , Includes Download Code Condition New Country UK Track Listings SIDE A Parisian Enclave The Destruction of the Kola Superdeep Borehole Tower Mobile Dark in Here Lizard Suit SIDE B When a Powerful Animal Comes To the Headless Horseman The New Hydra Collection The Slow Parts on Death Metal Albums SIDE C Before I Got There Arguing With the Ghost of Peter Laughner About His Coney Island Baby Review Let Me Bathe in Demonic Light SIDE D [Vinyl Etching] Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Mountain Goats, The View Product Quick View Mountain Goats, The The Coroner’s Gambit Americana / Country | Merge Records | 1LP Released 28th June 2024 £27.00 Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders Mountain Goats, The The Coroner’s Gambit £27.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Merge Records SKU: MRG800LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 28th June 2024 Read More Pre Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Mountain Goats, The Jenny from Thebes Americana / Country | Merge Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 27th October 2023 £24.00 Select options Reserve View Reservations Mountain Goats, The Jenny from Thebes £24.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Merge Records Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 27th October 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Select options View Product Quick View Mountain Goats, The All Hail West Texas Americana / Country | Merge | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 26th May 2023 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mountain Goats, The All Hail West Texas £26.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Merge SKU: MRG481LPC1 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 26th May 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Mountain Goats, The Transcendental Youth Americana / Country | Merge | 1LP Released 14th April 2023 £24.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Mountain Goats, The Transcendental Youth £24.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Merge SKU: MRG446LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 14th April 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket Matt's picks View Product Quick View Mountain Goats, The All Eternals Deck Americana / Country | Merge Records | 1LP Released 14th April 2023 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mountain Goats, The All Eternals Deck £24.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Merge Records SKU: MRG405LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 14th April 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Mountain Goats, The Bleed Out Rock And Pop | Merge Records | 2LP, 45rpm, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released 19th August 2022 £29.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Mountain Goats, The Bleed Out £29.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Merge Records SKU: MRG799LPC1 Formats: 2LP, 45rpm, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 19th August 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket On Sale View Product Quick View Mountain Goats, The Songs for Pierre Chuvin Americana / Country | Merge Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 26th March 2021 £13.99 - 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