Stereogum — In May, the Mountain Goats are releasing a new album, Goths, and a few months ago, John Darnielle introduced the noticeably guitar-free album with "Andrew Eldritch Is Moving Back To Leeds." Today, he's shared a second song from the album -- it's the ... more info

Consequence of Sound — The hushed, mournful track evokes John Darnielle's earliest self-recorded albums. more info

Stereogum — The anti-Trump charity series Our First 100 Days promises "one hundred songs that inspire progress and benefit a cause for change." The 71st of those songs comes from the Mountain Goats. "Etruscans" is not from John Darnielle's forthcoming Goths , a... more info

Stereogum — Thus far, one musician has already given us a must-read book in 2017: the Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle, whose deeply unsettling novel Universal Harvester is something you need in your life. Today, we learn about another. Gucci Mane, one of ... more info

Consequence of Sound — The Mountain Goats frontman uses the familiar to tell truly unusual stories. more info

Chorus.fm — The Mountain Goats will release their new album, Goths, on May 19th. Pre-orders are now up. more info

KEXP Seattle — John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats is on a creative streak. His second novel Universal Harvester just placed on the New York Times Bestseller List, and now we have news about a new album, the fantastically-titled Goths, out May 19th via Merge. The ... more info

Consequence of Sound — With more information to come during a Facebook Live event later this afternoon. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The Mountain Goats have announced their follow-up to 2015's Beat the Champ and fourth album for Merge. Goths is out on May 19 and its lead single, staying on point with the LP title, is "Andrew Eldritch is Moving Back to Leeds." Eldrich, if you ... more info

Stereogum — A couple of weeks ago, the Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle published Universal Harvester , his second novel (or, if you count the novella he published about a kid in a psychiatric hospital who needs his Black Sabbath tape to survive -- which ... more info