Mountain Goats, The - The Coroner's Gambit

Merge - MRG800LP

The album long sought after by Mountain Goats fans is finally back in print and features new liner notes by John Darnielle. Released on the precipice of the Mountain Goats' breakout albums All Hail West Texas and Tallahassee, The Coroner's Gambit is an introspective epic that stands as one of Darnielle's best outings in any era. On June 28, 2024, Merge Records reissues the Mountain Goats' The Coroner's Gambit on CD, LP, and, for the first time, cassette. Originally released in October 2000, The Coroner's Gambit finds John Darnielle between physical and sonic spaces, five of its sixteen songs recorded in Simon Joyner's Omaha, Nebraska, studio, five more at home in Colo, Iowa, and the rest in Ames. "The album came together slowly-the Mountain Goats had released music every year from 1991 to 1998, but between the release of that year's New Asian Cinema EP and The Coroner's Gambit, 1999 passed without an official Mountain Goats release. The additional time that went into The Coroner's Gambit paid off: It is a breakthrough for Darnielle as a songwriter and practitioner of the full-length album. His characters are sharply drawn, the immaculately appointed lore of the worlds they occupy providing them some shelter from the storm. He has grown as a guitarist and in voice, wringing moments of sweetness and humor from songs of fury and lament, nimbly modulating from mourning to longing, passing air through the lungs of the dead and survivors alike." The 2024 reissue marks the passage of time with new text and liner notes by Darnielle.

Side A:
Jaipur
Elijah
Trick Mirror
Island Garden Song
The Coroner's Gambit
Baboon
Scotch Grove
Horseradish Road

Side B:
Family Happiness
Onions
"Blue Jays And Cardinals"
Shadow Song
There Will Be No Divorce
Insurance Fraud #2
The Alphonse Mambo
We Were Patriots

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