Album Review: The Mountain Goats’ latest is called “Songs for Pierre Chuvin,” but it’s made for us.

Songs for Pierre Chuvin is The Mountain Goats’ latest album, recorded entirely on a Panasonic boombox, all since the pandemic. It’s based on “A Chronicle of the Last Pagans” by Pierre Chuvin, a French historian. Listening to this album, especially…

Album Review: The Mountain Goats – “Goths”

There is probably no word that describes John Darnielle better than “prolific.” In this decade alone, he has penned four albums with the Mountain Goats and published two novels—which is to say nothing of his various other writing ventures and…