Fine white foam
As previously mentioned, I finally bought the Mountain Goats' We Shall All Be Healed, and I have yet to be disappointed. Currently listening to it for the second time today, I'm in my favourite phase of digesting a new record by Darnielle, the one where phrases that went unnoticed before (or even ones that annoyed me) start by some mysteriously, quasi-alchemical process becoming my favourite things about the songs. It doesn't matter how lukewarm I feel about one of these albums on first play, I'm going to wind up adoring every track.
I'm not sure anything here will touch me as profoundly as "Have To Explode" still does, but there are already some new candidates for what I could call the Checkerboard White and Grey Hall of Fame, first (chronologically) among them the couplet "we are what we are / get in the goddamn car" from "Slow West Vultures".
I'm not sure anything here will touch me as profoundly as "Have To Explode" still does, but there are already some new candidates for what I could call the Checkerboard White and Grey Hall of Fame, first (chronologically) among them the couplet "we are what we are / get in the goddamn car" from "Slow West Vultures".
