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I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats

Night Vale Presents

Music Commentary, Music

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

A collaboration between Night Vale Presents, the Mountain Goats, and Merge Records, I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats is a podcast about what it means to be an artist, what it means to be a fan, and what it means to be, as many people are, both at once. Hosted by Joseph Fink, creator of Welcome to Night Vale and Alice Isn’t Dead, and one of his artistic heroes, John Darnielle, lead singer of the Mountain Goats, Season Two of the podcast explores the process of writing, recording, and releasing the Mountain Goats’ latest album, In League With Dragons, out April 26 on Merge Records. Recorded over several months while the album was in progress, this season gives us an unprecedented look at the creative process as it is happening, including the original demos for every single track on the album.

Season Two of I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats premieres on April 4, 2019, with weekly episodes through April 25 and biweekly episodes thereafter.

For more information, go to ionlylistentothemountaingoats.com.

From Night Vale Presents. Produced by Christy Gressman.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Joseph Fink, podcaster, writer, and we haven't spoken in a bit, but here we are.
0:09.3	Back with a new season of, I only listen to the Mountain Goats, the show about what it means to be an artist, to be a fan, and to be both at once.
0:18.0	I'm still here with John Darniel, singer and songwriter of the band The Mountain Goats, but things are going to be a little different this season.
0:24.8	See, we are talking about a brand new album that was not even finished when we recorded the episodes.
0:30.4	So instead of a cover, every episode, we will be looking at the original rough demos to discuss the process that led to the finished album versions. But we still will be talking through one of John's albums, Song by Song. The album is the soon to be released in league with
0:45.4	Dragons, except throughout the season we'll keep calling it younger because that's what it was called
0:50.2	at the time. It went through a few different names in track orders. It doesn't matter.
0:53.7	Just when you hear us say an old title substitute in league with dragons in your mind.
0:58.4	Okay, let's rejoin the two of us in Brooklyn last summer, moments after recording the intro to last fall's live episode.
1:10.8	So for the listener it has been months of just edge of your seat waiting constantly checking
1:17.0	seeing if this is come back.
1:18.8	Just edging just relentlessly.
1:20.0	Oh, oh, um, mom don't look that up.
1:25.0	Mom knows.
1:27.0	So we did have planned this season on Transcendo Youth.
1:32.0	I was pretty excited for that record because it has a special connection
1:34.7	Like it's one of I think all records sort of find their own
1:40.9	I don't want to say cheering sections, what I would say but their own
1:40.9	Partisans, right?
1:42.6	That's where it reached these people,
1:44.4	transnational youth.
1:45.4	A pretty personal record, and yeah,
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