The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats is the musical project of singer-songwriter, novelist, pianist and guitarist John Darnielle. He has the distinction of being named by the The New Yorker magazine as 'America’s best non-hip-hop lyricist'; in its June 2006 issue, Paste magazine dubbed Darnielle one of the '100 Best Living Songwriters'. Darnielle’s lyrics are erudite and compassionate and filled with imagery that reference classical literature, religion, mythology, culture, art, and history.
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The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats is the musical project of singer-songwriter, novelist, pianist and guitarist John Darnielle. He has the distinction of being named by the The New Yorker magazine as 'America’s best non-hip-hop lyricist'; in its June 2006 issue, Paste magazine dubbed Darnielle one of the '100 Best Living Songwriters'. Darnielle’s lyrics are erudite and compassionate and filled with imagery that reference classical literature, religion, mythology, culture, art, and history.
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Most of the Flush
Started making music under a new name for my new phase of life.more
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Town Monster
Town Monster is a song for anyone that’s ever felt like the lost kid living in the abandoned, derelict house at the end of the street, peering out of the shutters at the nonsensical and isolating world outside the window. Dreamt up while hiding away in a small hut somewhere in rural Austria, Homonym’s tale depicts a character hiding in plain sight in a fast moving urban world, lost amid the noise, bright lights and humans. Reflected is the sad irony that the greater the metropolises we live in, the lonelier and more detached we inevitably become. Defiantly sad, the song is woven from one simple threaded folk guitar line, while a myriad of fluttering pianos, melancholic horns and floating guitars cascade around the haunting vocal. The song ends with the window finally cracked open, revealing the noises of children playing outside, leaving hope that naivety and playfulness can be found again in dark places.more
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what a silence
when life knocks the wind out of you and you're just like "what the fuck did I do to deserve this"more
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