{"id":2351,"date":"2011-07-25T22:41:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T05:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2351"},"modified":"2011-07-25T22:41:29","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T05:41:29","slug":"the-mountain-goats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/07\/the-mountain-goats\/","title":{"rendered":"THE MOUNTAIN GOATS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2352\" title=\"The-Mountain-Goats_-All-Eternals-Deck-M-Review-MarApr2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/The-Mountain-Goats_-All-Eternals-Deck-M-Review-MarApr2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/The-Mountain-Goats_-All-Eternals-Deck-M-Review-MarApr2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/The-Mountain-Goats_-All-Eternals-Deck-M-Review-MarApr2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>T<\/strong><strong>HE MOUNTAIN GOATS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>All Eternals Deck<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Merge]<\/p>\n<p>The title of <em>All Eternals Deck <\/em>ostensibly refers to a fictional set of Tarot cards, but the Mountain Goats\u2019 latest draws less of its lyrical juice from fortune-telling than from scientific inquiry and the lives of faded Hollywood stars\u2014as befits idiosyncratic singer and songwriter John Darnielle. It\u2019s the latest in a continued evolution away from Darnielle\u2019s one-man, lo-fi roots: The Mountain Goats have become a proper rock band with proper rock songs that retain Darnielle\u2019s penchant for striking lyrical imagery and the occasional gut-punch metaphor. He muses at the curse of immortality on opener \u201cDamn These Vampires,\u201d describes the monsters behind mogul masks on \u201cThe Autopsy Garland,\u201d draws parallels between modern times and primitive human ancestors on \u201cSourdoire Valley Song\u201d and dedicates \u201cFor Charles Bronson\u201d to \u2026 well, you can guess. <em>All Eternals Deck <\/em>isn\u2019t the band\u2019s most penetrating work, but it is another solid entry in the Mountain Goats\u2019 extensive canon. \u2013Eric R. Danton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE MOUNTAIN GOATS All Eternals Deck [Merge] The title of All Eternals Deck ostensibly refers to a fictional set of Tarot cards, but the Mountain Goats\u2019 latest draws less of its lyrical juice from fortune-telling than from scientific inquiry and the lives of faded Hollywood stars\u2014as befits idiosyncratic singer and songwriter John Darnielle. It\u2019s the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,1862,1807,552,1861],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2353,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351\/revisions\/2353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}