“[The Mountain Goats](https://pitchfork.com/artists/2845-the-mountain-goats/) have long been considered a boutiquer’s taste: a little something for a highly specialized portion of the population, but hardly a crowd-pleaser in any sense of the word. After all, Mountain Goats albums sound like most band’s demos, superficially speaking—the lion’s share of the project’s corpus is [John Darnielle](https”
