204: Going Invisible 2

I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats

Night Vale Presents

Music Commentary, Music

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

John Darnielle and Joseph Fink discuss growth through destruction, the value of creative constraints, and Going Invisible 2 from the Mountain Goats’ upcoming album, In League With Dragons, out April 26 on Merge Records. Featuring an exclusive demo version of Going Invisible 2.

Episodes will be released biweekly from this episode on.

For more information, go to ionlylistentothemountaingoats.com, and to 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	Good evening and welcome to you. I only listen to the Mountain Goat. It's the only podcast that comes to you bearing the Sicilian crest.
0:05.0	Great, and now let's start this episode.
0:09.0	Hi, I'm Joseph Fink, podcaster and novelist, and this is the show where I talk with John
0:16.2	Darniel, singer and songwriter of the band The Mountain Goats, about his music and about
0:21.6	being an artist, and also a lot of tangents about a lot of other things.
0:25.8	This season we are going song by song through the brand new Mountain Goats album
0:30.3	In League with Dragons, which by the way comes out tomorrow.
0:34.0	Today we discuss what was at the time we were recording this
0:38.0	some eight months before the album's release,
0:41.0	the opening track.
0:42.0	Subsequently, the track listing was
0:44.1	completely redone and it was moved much later, but that's why we keep talking
0:47.6	about it being the opening. I take you now to the end of our first day of
0:52.2	recording. Last summer in Brooklyn we were
0:54.6	getting tired but we had to push on for we had reached going invisible to. Welcome to I only listen to the Mountain Goats, the only podcast that I am currently talking on.
1:10.0	I have not yet learned how to record multiple podcasts at once.
1:14.4	It's coming though.
1:15.4	Is it, don't you think that's the next, the next Vanguard in podcast?
1:18.3	Oh, I make my life so much more efficient.
1:20.5	Well, you could just do it together.
1:21.8	I'll talk about gardening and you talk about
1:23.6	the mountain goats. I can't actually, but I wish I'd garden more than I do. Don't we all? I mean
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