Goths (album)
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| Studio album by the Mountain Goats | ||||
| Released | May 19, 2017 | |||
| Recorded | 2017 | |||
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| Length | 55:08 | |||
| Label | Merge | |||
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| Metacritic | 82/100 |
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| Pitchfork Media | 8/10 |
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Goths is the sixteenth studio album by the Mountain Goats, released on May 19, 2017, on Merge Records. The band has stated that Goths was inspired by an adolescence listening to The Cure, Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Joy Division, as well as hearing songs on the Californian radio station KROQ-FM.
Singer John Darnielle spent his teenage years listening to dark music and was attracted by outsiders at school. In 2014, prior to recording Goths, he performed live a cover version of "Spellbound", a single by one of his favourite bands Siouxsie and the Banshees.
For the album, Darnielle wrote lyrics with references to some of his favourite bands. On "Abandoned Flesh", they sing: The Cure's Robert Smith may be "secure at his villa in France" and Siouxsie Sioux "had enough hits to keep the bills paid".The Guardian describes Darnielle's writing as "evocative", with lines such as "Outside it’s 92 degrees and KROQ plays Siouxsie and the Banshees" "92°" being the title of a Siouxsie song. The track "Andrew Eldritch Is Moving Back to Leeds" is a description of the Sisters of Mercy frontman. "Rain in Soho" includes the line "There’s a club where you’d like to go
You could meet someone who’s lost like you" an allusion to The Smiths, "How Soon is Now?" The lyrics have been described as a mix of "wry insight and black humour". Musically, the songs have been compared to artists such as Nick Cave, Prefab Sprout, and New Order.
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