The Mountain Goats - Getting Into KnivesOn the first of March, 2020, John Darnielle, Peter Hughes, Matt Douglas, and Jon Wurster, aka the Mountain Goats band, visited legendary studio Sam Phillips Recording in Memphis, TN. Darnielle armed his band with new songs and reunited with producer Matt Ross Spang who engineered last years In League with Dragons. In the same room where the Cramps tracked their 1980 debut album, the Mountain Goats spent a week capturing the magic of a band at the top

“I had it in my head that this kind of thing only really happens once and to try it again might be a big waste of time

The marriage of soul

to wait in line for the bathroom and it‰۪s like you‰۪re really there

I wanted to make useful songs

One form creating another through a metamorphic process

otherworldly but strangely familiar

released on 3 September 1984 on EMI in Europe and its sister label Capitol Records in North America

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A cult figure for fans of Americana

and Carlos Santana (Divine Light

Yo La Tengo

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