Independent music reviews, interviews and downloads from Utah, 2004–2012
308 posts, November 2004 to January 2012
4AD, 2005 The Sunset Tree is the latest album recorded -- and soon, released -- by The Mountain Goats, the brainchild of musician John Darnielle. The Sunset Tree's precursor, Dilaudid EP, features several songs that make their full impact…
4AD, 2005 From the nearly-manic opening strains of cello in what is both the first and title track, "Dilaudid," the strength of The Mountain Goats download-only Dilaudid EP becomes readily apparent. Continuing from this excellent…
Without Ghosts opens with a thumping drum that can be equated to the beating of heart, but quickly strays from this path (and by quickly, I mean, four or five seconds), instead opting to explore a mixture of both electronic and electric…
Occasionally we have a dream so vivid that upon waking, we wonder if any of these often too-good-to-be-true occurences were real -- or even assume that they, in fact, are. Given a few minutes of waking, we come to realize that our…