The Coroner’s Gambit Mountain Goats, The SKU: MRG800LP Barcode: 0673855080017 27.00 £27.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Merge Records Released Date: 28th June 2024 Buying Format: 1LP Forthcoming Pre Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Originally released in October 2000, The Coroner’s Gambit finds John Darnielle between physical and sonic spaces, five of its sixteen songs recorded in Simon Joyner’s Omaha, Nebraska, studio, five more at home in Colo, Iowa, and the rest in Ames. The album came together slowly; the Mountain Goats had released music every year from 1991 to 1998, but between the release of that year’s New Asian Cinema EP and The Coroner’s Gambit, 1999 passed without an official Mountain Goats release. The additional time that went into The Coroner’s Gambit paid off: it is a breakthrough for Darnielle as a songwriter and practitioner of the full-length album. His characters are sharply drawn, the immaculately appointed lore of the worlds they occupy providing them some shelter from the storm. He has grown as a guitarist and in voice, wringing moments of sweetness and humour from songs of fury and lament, nimbly modulating from mourning to longing, passing air through the lungs of the dead and survivors alike. The mix of home and studio recordings grants The Coroner’s Gambit a thrilling sense of immediacy while pointing towards a future that is soon to break open with All Hail West Texas and Tallahassee. The Coroner’s Gambit is a masterpiece in its own right, an introspective epic that further burnishes Darnielle’s reputation as one of our greatest songwriters, one whose gift for confessional fabulism knows few rivals. In the ensuing years since its original release The Coroner’s Gambit has become somewhat tricky to pin down in its entirety. Releasing the CD for the segment of the Mountain Goats massive who just wanted the songs, and the LP for those drawn to the ephemera of the album as a package, vinyl copies were housed in a paper bag that had additional Darnielle-penned liner notes printed on them. One thousand vinyl copies were issued, and, based on reports from the collector’s scene, far fewer than one thousand bags survive to the present, its text living on largely through Flickr albums and fan sites. The 2024 reissue marks the passage of time with new text and liner notes by Darnielle for CD and LP. Artist Mountain Goats, The Genre Americana / Country Label Merge Records Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Jaipur Elijah Trick Mirror Island Garden Song The Coroner’s Gambit Baboon Scotch Grove Horseradish Road Family Happiness Onions “Bluejays and Cardinals” Shadow Song There Will Be No Divorce Insurance Fraud #2 The Alphonse Mambo We Were Patriots Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Mountain Goats, The 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 View Product Quick View Mountain Goats, The Dark in Here Americana / Country | Merge Records | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 25th June 2021 £23.00 - 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