Preview a Track From the New Mountain Goats Album
John Darnielle has officially announced, via The Mountain Goats website, that a new album, The Life of the World to Come, is forthcoming.
The album has a pretty overt biblical slant that Darnielle is already addressing (the first track has been available less than 24 hours!). All of the track titles are named after Bible verses, including the first track available for download, “Genesis 3:23.” In the same post where Darnielle makes the announcement he touches on the inevitable questions about whether or not he has “found god:”
“I guess the obvious question is going to be: ‘John, have you had some sort of religious awakening?’ and while I guess lots of people might want to be coy about answering that, that’s never really been my style, so: no. It’s not like that. It’s not some heavy-narrative-distance deal either, though, and it’s not a screed. It’s twelve new songs: twelve hard lessons the Bible taught me, kind of. More than that I’d want to wait to say until some people have heard it, which won’t be long. Will there be more news soon, quite soon? Like, next week, even? Oh yes there will!”
The album features the same Mountain Goats lineup that’s been there for a little while now including Peter Hughes and Jon Wurster. Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy) does string arrangements and a little electronic work as well. The Life of the World to Come will be released on October 6 through 4AD.
Track list:
01 1 Samuel 15:23
02 Psalms 40:2
03 Genesis 3:23
04 Philippians 3:20-21
05 Hebrews 11:40
06 Genesis 30:3
07 Romans 10:9
08 1 John 4:16
09 Matthew 25:21
10 Deuteronomy 2:10
11 Isaiah 45:23
12 Ezekiel 7 and the Permanent Efficacy of Grace
