Mountain Goats - Dark in Here mark spears to free and Afrofuturist

to free and Afrofuturist

and there's plenty to sweat over if you just hopped into the sauna

Each song is embedded with revelatory moments

I've longed for what an upright bass could add to our sound

Mountain Goats - Dark in Here mark spears to free and AfrofuturistAt last it can be told: the story of how, when The Mountain Goats got together in early March, 2020, it was to make not one album, but two. The idea this time around was to work with Matt Ross Spang, the dashing Memphis wunderkind who'd engineered that album and charmed us all with his gentle wit and old school savoir faire. The Memphis album Getting Into Knives, which came out last October would be brighter, bolder, marked by rich and vibrant hues;