The Mountain Goats "The Coroner's Gambit" Kandy Korn Yellow Peak Vinyl LP

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The Mountain Goats "The Coroner's Gambit"
Peak Vinyl LP: Single LP on kandy korn yellow vinyl in single pocket jacket with insert. Housed in 15” × 18” white paper bag that contains both the original album text and new liner notes by John Darnielle.

John Darnielle, on The Coroner’s Gambit:

"There are few records in the Mountain Goats catalog that are closer to my heart than The Coroner's Gambit. It bears a sonic thumbprint shared by none of its brethren (Panasonic RX-FT500, Marantz PMD-222, and sessions in Omaha probably recorded to a Tascam Porta-One) and while two of those sources appear on several later releases, none of the other records really sound like it. Although it contains exactly no autobiographical songs, it feels personal to me — intimate, diaristic. I have vivid memories of the songs I wrote and recorded in Colo, and foggy memories of the Greyhound trip to & from Omaha. I was taking Greyhounds across midwestern state lines to record songs with friends when I made The Coroner's Gambit, is what I'm saying. You can maybe hear the exhaust of the Greyhound in the songs if you listen close."

The Coroner’s Gambit finds John Darnielle between physical and sonic spaces, five of its sixteen songs recorded in Simon Joyner’s Omaha, Nebraska studio, five more at home in Colo, Iowa, and the rest after he moved to Ames. The mix of home and studio recordings grants The Coroner’s Gambit a thrilling sense of immediacy, its sharply drawn characters and the immaculately appointed lore of the worlds they occupy representing a breakthrough for Darnielle as a practitioner of the full-length album. It is an early masterpiece, an introspective epic that further burnishes Darnielle’s reputation as one of our greatest songwriters, one whose gift for confessional fabulism knows few rivals.