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Mountain Goats To Premiere New Music On Tour

2:52 p.m. · January 12, 2012 · by Andrew Martin

So you saw The Mountain Goatstour dates we posted but have been wondering if you should throw down some cash to see them play. Well, I think it's safe to say you probably should, because they'll be premiering new music during the nationwide jaunt. Their label, Merge Records, reported that they have been demoing new tracks in the studio lately and that you can expect to hear them if you see them on tour.

Here's the message Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle released via the band's website on the upcoming jaunt:

“One small word about these shows. For years bands have been pretty judicious about playing unreleased new material, because much of it becomes available online immediately, even when the new songs are still in fairly raw form. We, too, have gotten into the bad habit of holding new stuff back. We are done with that whole philosophy, though. I miss playing stuff that’s unreleased & unrecorded, stuff that still stings fresh. So we got together and decided to tour the new songs before we even record them. I don’t guess that we’ll be touring all ten of the new songs I’ve written for the next album (eleven if you count one that’s presently being herded back and forth between its cell & the chopping block), but be advised that if you’re the sort of person who wants as many surprises as possible when you hear a new album, you should tread lightly around recordings of these shows, because we’re not going to be holding the best ones back for the album release like people tend to do now.”