The Mountain Goats released their album last November, but that hasn’t stopped them from finishing their next one sooner than expected. Just a few months after ‘Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan’, John Darnielle’s group has announced that they will release ‘Days’ on August 7.
‘Days’ was originally conceived as a sequel to The Mountain Goats’ 2017 album, ‘Goths’, and its simple title doesn’t anticipate the curious names of the songs on the album: we’re really looking forward to ‘Best Hard Rock Albums 2013’ and ‘Hidden Majesty of Later Venom Albums’. As Darnielle explains, Days’ songs “more or less talk about the 70s, the 80s and the 90s.”
At the moment, a preview of ‘Days’ is already available with an equally striking title, which refers to a famous American actor: ‘Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds’. Translated as “Charlie Sheen Contacts Federal Authorities,” the title alludes to the real episode in which Sheen watched a snuff film and called the authorities believing he was witnessing a real murder.
The energetic and lively indie-rock sound of ‘Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds’, which incorporates saxophone riffs under production by John Congleton, presents a story with a comic and ironic tone, starring a Charlie Sheen convinced that he is uncovering a criminal conspiracy, while the agents try to reason with him.
Days:
01 Song for Layne Staley
02 Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds
03 Shallow Grave
04 Candlebox
05 Annie Haslam Imperial Phase
06 Crying on Eddie Nash’s Grave
07 Days
08 Best Hard Rock Albums 2013
09 Going to Fennario
10 Woodstock
11 Hidden Majesty of Later Venom Albums
12 Last Day
