Review
Album Review
The Mountain Goats The Life of the World to Come
You couldn't be blamed for assuming that John Darnielle finally ran out of steam and, with no other career options available, simply opened up the Bible and started using random passages as lyrics. After all, this is his sixteenth album under the Mountain Goats name, and the track list consisting of Bible verses suggests either a creative roadblock or some sort of religious calling to convert the masses of argyle-wearing hipster types. In reality, though, The Life of the World to Come is based on Darnielle's life, using the Bible as a sort of narrative framework. On the Mountain Goats' website, he describes it as "twelve new songs: twelve hard lessons the Bible taught me, kind of." The Mountain Goats this time around consists of Darnielle, Jon Wurster, and Peter Hughes, with some string arrangements from Final Fantasy's Owen Pallett.
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I think you could be blamed for thinking John Darnielle ran out of steam. The recent release of the "Satanic Messiah" EP shows that he is currently interested in Biblical based writing. Not to mention he's named titles after Bible verses in previous albums before.
Josh
Past Mountain Goats songs that reference the Bible that I can think of off the top of my head:
I Corinthians 13: 8-0
Genesis 19 1-2
Love Love Love
Song For John Davis
Alpha Gelida
The Doll Song
Jaipur
Elijah
New Chevrolet in Flames
As you can see, Biblical references has abounded in past Mountain Goats records and therefore it should never be a case of believing John Darnielle has ran out of steam. He is simply fully exploring something he's touched on in the past.
Matt
That phrase was just a tongue-in-cheek reference to Darnielle's extensive discography. And while he has written about the Bible before, releasing an album on which every track is named for a Bible verse certainly brings those references more to the forefront.
Mr Darnielle just named the songs this way so that people would try to read something into it.
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