The Mountain Goats miss the mark with latest single Younger

The Mountain Goats come up short with most recent single Younger The Mountain Goats come up short with most recent single Younger Jason Woods Labels Musicreviewsinglethe mountain goatsyounger Youngers six-minute runtime totally resists the desires independent stone backbones The Mountain Goats have made so far. So too does the tracks increasingly far reaching and fleshed out sound, the absolute opposite of their 2017 collection Goths. Given the idea of their up and coming album: In League With Dragons, evidently half stone, collection half Dungeons Dragons battle, it would bode well to wander from the standard. However, this change to high dream doesn't really land for the band, whose verbose references to old style folklore don't exactly resound with the audience a similar way the more genuine, reality-established anthems prior in their discography do. The relinquishment of the guitar-less stone past on their earlier collection is welcome yet regularly the completion of the track makes it sound jumbled, with guitar sax and piano battling to be heard among the messiness. The environment of a high dream fight is caught in any case the track remains totally forgettable.