The Mountain Goats - Getting Into Knives (2020) [FLAC]

The Mountain Goats - Getting Into Knives (2020) [FLAC]

Released ................ 2020
Source .................. WEB
Genre ................... rock, folk, indie rock, indie folk
Codec ................... FLAC
Bit Depth ............... 16 bits
Sampling Rate ........... 44.1 kHz

In flowing rivers, in falling raindrops, in waves that will tear us to pieces, in ice cold glasses toasting the living and the dead. Water can carve away at mountainsides over eons, or come crashing over the city in an instant. Animals, fugitives, loners, and crumbling signs of life swim through the depths of the Mountain Goats’ Getting Into Knives, due October 23 via Merge. Like an eight-foot swell of blades, John Darnielle, Matt Douglas, Peter Hughes, and Jon Wurster ground the songs in the impermanence of permanence and the certainty of uncertainty, the casual and subtle threat that everything will come to an end. “Everything becomes a blur from six feet away,” Darnielle sings on “Tidal Wave”. Written years before any concern for social distancing became a constant subject of conversation, the song insists instead that not every wave is a tidal wave. “Some waves are slow things that cover you without you having noticed,” Darnielle explains. But even that bit of grim perspective has its comforts. “With the album, you either slam the door shut or you open on to the next path,” Darnielle avows. “The trick is to sew up an ending, but at the same time open the doors to the theater and let the sunlight in.” Albums like Getting Into Knives sweep you out that door and away into the center of a vast sea. You may find yourself submerged into inky depths or reaching a purifying breath of air with songs like these. Songs that enlighten despite the inevitability of loss.

01 - Corsican Mastiff Stride
02 - Get Famous
03 - Picture of My Dress
04 - As Many Candles as Possible
05 - Tidal Wave
06 - Pez dorado
07 - The Last Place I Saw You Alive
08 - Bell Swamp Connection
09 - The Great Gold Sheep
10 - Rat Queen
11 - Wolf Count
12 - Harbor Me
13 - Getting Into Knives