Goths

John Darnielle's latest is a richly detailed collection of songs about the beautiful melancholy life of a goth, and the long journey between life in the dark and death in the light.

Goths, the Mountain Goats’ 16th studio album, opens with “Rain In Soho,” a barnburner of a song that belies the subdued nature of the tracks that follow. In fact, it gets things off to such a rousing start that it’s easy to overlook what’s missing—namely, frontman John Darnielle’s guitar. As mentioned in the album’s…

Goths feature heavily in a guitar-less departure from previous sonic territory.

"I'm hardcore/But I'm not that hardcore," a young man muses in the early chapters of the Mountain Goats' 2017 album, Goths, and in those seven words, group leader John Darnielle neatly summarizes the album's overriding theme: what it's like not to fit in, even among those folks who don't fit in.

Peter Hughes, longtime bassist of the Mountain Goats, describes the goth identity as one "most often associated with youth from a perspectiv...

Given John Darnielle's love of death metal, we knew Goths' day would come.

The Mountain Goats’s Goths focuses on the blurry boundary separating artistic success from failure.

Review of the Mountain Goats' Goths, there's a lot that works but does it outstay its welcome? The full-length comes out on May 19th, via Merge Records.