Mountain Goats Do Solo Tour, Barenaked Ladies Cruise

Photo by Jason Bergman The biggest Mountain Goats fan I know, Pitchfork contributor Zach Baron, is also the guy I know who gets the most pissed off whenever lead Goat John Darnielle adds another layer of orchestration to his songs. The Mountain Goats started out as just Darnielle, recording innumerable limited-edition cassette-only EPs on his boombox and playing deliriously cathartic solo acoustic shows to his ever-growing rabid cult. But then Darnielle started tricking his songs out with fuller...

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