203: Done Bleeding

I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats

Night Vale Presents

Music Commentary, Music

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains mentions of addiction and self-harm.

On today’s episode, Joseph Fink and John Darnielle talk leaving, learning how to live, and Done Bleeding, from the Mountain Goats’ upcoming album, In League With Dragons, out April 26 on Merge Records. Featuring an exclusive demo version of Done Bleeding.

We will be sharing weekly episodes through April 25 and biweekly episodes thereafter.

For more information, go to ionlylistentothemountaingoats.com, and to pre-order the album, go to mergerecords.com/in-league-with-dragons.

From Night Vale Presents. Produced by Christy Gressman.

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0:00.0	I gotta make a flight decision. Hi, welcome to I can listen to the Mountain Goats. I gotta play the
0:04.0	outside lands festival at a month here and I have to decide whether to leave at 5.30 a.m. or not.
0:10.0	Oh God, my choice right now. I never ever know. I almost have to that's too early my latest flight option to get there in time is 930 and that gets me there perilously close to stage time so
0:22.0	Welcome to I only listen to the Mountain Goats. The only podcast. We don't have any
0:26.2	scheduled thing for this. So it's the only podcast where we can just punch in
0:29.8	something afterwards. So we'll bring on our usual celebrity guests, whatever famous person, whether it's, you know, Chris Pine or Chris Hemsworth or Chris Pratt or one of the other famous Chris is.
0:41.0	The many Chris is. Welcome to I only talk to Chris. The only podcast that only talks to Chris.
0:46.0	Oh man, what if you had to talk to a different famous Chris every episode you couldn't repeat
0:50.4	and so you really had to like keep going with that.
0:53.4	Well, Chris, I've been thinking about this.
0:55.0	Uh-huh.
0:56.0	Hi, I'm Joseph Fink.
1:00.0	I make Welcome to Nightville and I write books books and this is the show where I talk with
1:04.8	John Darniel, singer and songwriter of the band The Mountain Goats and we really try to get to the bottom of things.
1:09.8	What things?
1:10.8	All things. We are still in that basement in Brooklyn and here is a good place to note
1:15.2	that we recorded the season in an order that had nothing to do with the track listing at the time
1:19.7	or the fairly different track listing of the final album. Why, we're not sure. John got really excited about doing it in
1:26.0	this order and wrote up a detailed outline and then couldn't remember why, but it seemed great and
1:30.2	we went with it. So here we discussed Dunbleeding, the opening track to the album, but at the time it was the second-last track and we are discussing it second. Got it? Great. Let's get to Dunbleeding. great.
1:43.0	Let's get to done believing.
1:46.0	All right, so today we're going to be continuing our track to do this album entirely out of order.
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