Finding a way to turn an off balanced home life into quirky and oddly humorous albums, John Darnielle and company played to a packed crowd of maybe 100. He was tender and unpolished with a very honest. His stage persona is one hell of a friendly guy. Some of the best stage banter ever: “This is a song about when you were 17 and you got really drunk, then decided it’d be a good idea to go over to your step dad’s house and tell him he’s ruining you and your mom’s life. But when you get there your mom answers the door and all the powerful things you thought of to say come out: ‘You asshole.’ And I’m playing it now because I wrote it about you, and I knew you’d be here.”
The songs The Mountain Goats play are typically about situations like this: slightly dark and dysfunctional, yet they have some twinkle to them that keeps each song from being wholly depressing. Darnielle puts a little twist on everything in this way, and he rocks harder than any guy holding an acoustic guitar normally would. The band has always had this set up over the years, starting out fiercely lo-fi and working up to their current, and charmingly modest, sound.I haven’t heard their brand new album yet, but I’d be willing to be that it’s one hell of a work. Their live show certainly would suggest the same.
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