114: Absolute Lithops Effect

I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats

Night Vale Presents

Music Commentary, Music

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

John and Joseph talk about the final song on All Hail West Texas, endings, and what happens after the ending has ended. Carrie Elkin joins to discuss bringing kids on tour and her cover of “Absolute Lithops Effect.”

Buy Carrie Elkin’s cover of “Absolute Lithops Effect” on iTunes, Bandcamp, or wherever you buy digital music. It supports both the artist and the show!

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Learn more about John Darnielle’s two novels here.
Listen to more music by the Mountain Goats, including their latest album Goths, here.

Check out Joseph Fink’s other shows, Welcome to Night Vale and Alice Isn’t Dead. His second novel with Jeffrey Cranor, It Devours!, is out now, and you can pre-order his next novel, Alice Isn’t Dead, today.

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Credits: Joseph Fink (host), John Darnielle (host), Christy Gressman (producer), Grant Stewart (editor), Vincent Cacchione (mixer), Rob Wilson (logo). Produced by Night Vale Presents in collaboration with Merge Records and the Mountain Goats.

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0:00.0	Welcome.
0:03.0	John's gonna do it this time.
0:04.0	To I only listen to the mountain goats, the only
0:09.0	podcast that only listens to the mountain goats.
0:12.0	I'm John Darniel. I am Joseph Fink and this
0:15.5	John is our last episode. This is the last episode of the season. We'll be talking about
0:19.6	absolute Lithop's effect, the only song that addresses the ongoing problem of the absolute Lithop's
0:25.5	effect.
0:28.4	So here we are, the final regular episode of this season, discussing the final track of John's 2002 album
0:35.4	All Hail West Texas.
0:37.4	You'll hear us talk today about the scary slash exciting experiment that the show was for
0:41.6	both of us and what it felt like to make it.
0:44.0	But ultimately here's where we're at. A year ago there was none of this and now there
0:49.4	are 14 in-depth conversations about art and 14 new beautiful music tracks, all of which
0:55.2	only exist because we decided to give this project a try. We will have one more
0:59.5	special episode in two
1:04.4	We'll explain about a little later, but in the meantime, let's rejoin our two protagonists as they talk about endings and what happens after the ending has ended
1:10.5	You know you've done a lot of sequencing of albums you've that's important to you. Yeah and here we here we are
1:17.9	This is the last track on the album, but this is also the last you you know, episode of the season.
1:23.6	So what makes a good closer?
1:26.0	It's a huge, here's the thing,
1:28.0	is like, as I've probably said a lot of times this season.
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