News From the Front

I have often been described as having a short term obsessive personality (a term, if you must know, of my own invention). I tend to flit around from obsession to obsession in relatively short phases. The flavor of March was Xiu Xiu, who knows what will be next. For about two months last year I was threatened within an inch of my life to drop the High Places nonsense or else by a few of my very dearest friends. Throughout the entire month of June in 2008 I categorically refused to watch any movie not called "Wonderboys."

That being said, there has been one obsession that has remained quite constant. That is my obsession with a certain band called the Mountain Goats. For those of you unfamiliar with the Mountain Goats I will refrain from explaining them too thoroughly as I would sincerely like to avoid pathetic fanboy drivel. Suffice it to say, the Mountain Goats play relatively simple folk pop music with a tremendous focus on the lyrical content. To say that I love them would be a gross understatement.


I simply present this information as something of an apology for the behavior I will exhibit from time to time on this blog. While my goal is to write about the broadest number of topics possible, the Mountain Goats will likely be a frequently recurring topic. In fact, I must say that I am surprised with and proud of myself for refraining from writing about them up until this point.

Now however, is a time to break the silence.

You see, within a month or so (this is likely however not for sure as there has been no specific date set as of yet) John Darnielle (the primary songwriter for the Mountain Goats) will be releasing an album with John Vanderslice. This album will invariably be awesome. How do I know this you ask? I have three reasons:

1. Look at the album art here. When you see it you will certainly agree that any music contained therein must without a doubt be awesome.

2. It will be called "Moon Colony Bloodbath" and it is apparently a concept EP about people who live on the moon in some capacity (also, likely a great number of them die making the use of the word bloodbath in the title quite fitting). While I will readily admit that I do not know the details of this story and I could in fact be wrong, the pure fact that the album is called "Moon Colony Bloodbath" is, in my humble opinion, the definition of badass.

3. It involves the collaborative work of two of the greatest songwriters out there today, Johns Darnielle and Vanderslice.

So, you now see why wait with baited breath for the release of this album. As a side note, I am seeing both Darnielle and Vanderslice next Monday- expect pictures, commentary, and school girl-esque screams to follow.