“After two previous albums together, the rock trio version of the Mountain Goats now sound like a properly developed unit that plays with nuance and purpose.”
“NPR Stream: http://n.pr/gEgSRD (Good 'til the end of March.)”
“Twenty years after John Darnielle began recording albums on a boombox, his head is still exploding with words. The Mountain Goats’ latest shows Darnielle’s folk rock growing more diverse, swelled with strings and choral harmonizing. "High Hawk Season" sounds like Fleet Foxes reimagined as a New York street gang with lit Ph.D.s. Darnielle’s lyrics here […]”