Sound Advice: The Mountain Goats with Dead Rider

John Darnielle is as prolific, versatile and just plain interesting as any songwriter of the last two decades, a claim that might surprise those not familiar with the California native's long-running band The Mountain Goats, which has evolved from Darnielle's boom-box recorded bedroom missives to full-band studio outings for Merge Records. , is yet another effort in which Darnielle's hyper-literate lyricism and modest but expressive voice take center stage.

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