The Mountain Goats

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The Mountain Goats
Darnielle and Hughes in 2007
Darnielle and Hughes in 2007
General information
Genre (s) Folk rock , indie , lo-fi
founding 1991
Website http://www.mountain-goats.com/
Current occupation
Guitar , vocals
 John Darnielle
Bass , guitar
 Peter Hughes

The Mountain Goats ( Engl. The mountain goats ) is an American band that in 1991 in Claremont, California as a project of singer-songwriter John Darnielle was founded.

Band history

The then college student Darnielle first released an album under the name The Mountain Goats in 1991 , Taboo VI: The Homecoming , which was released on the small label Shrimper Records based in Upland (California) . In the years that followed, various other works were released on small labels, mostly including bassist Rachel Ware, who accompanied Darnielle at concerts until 1995. Later this job was taken over by Peter Hughes, who is now an official member of the Mountain Goats. From 2002 to 2010, the band's albums were released by 4AD . With Get Lonely , released in 2006, the Montain Goats placed in the US album charts. In 2011 the album All Eternals Deck was released on Merge Records .

John Darnielle was one of the guests on Aesop Rock's 2007 album None Shall Pass .

Discography

Studio albums

  • 1991: Taboo VI: The Homecoming (Shrimper Records)
  • 1992: The Hound Chronicles (Shrimper Records)
  • 1993: Hot Garden Stomp (Shrimper Records)
  • 1994: Zopilote Machine (Ajax Records)
  • 1995: Sweden (Shrimper Records)
  • 1996: Nothing for Juice (Ajax Records)
  • 1997: Full Force Galesburg (Emperor Jones)
  • 2000: The Coroner's Gambit (Absolutely Kosher)
  • 2002: All Hail West Texas (Emperor Jones)
  • 2002: Tallahassee ( 4AD )
  • 2004: We Shall All Be Healed (4AD)
  • 2005: The Sunset Tree (4AD)
  • 2005: Come, Come to the Sunset Tree (4AD)
year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
US US
2006 Get lonely US193 (1 week)
US
2008 Heretic Pride US194 (1 week)
US
2009 The Life of the World to Come US110 (2 weeks)
US
2011 All Eternals Deck US72 (1 week)
US
2012 Transcendental Youth US86 (1 week)
US
2013 All Hail West Texas US140 (1 week)
US
2015 Beat the champ US65 (1 week)
US
2017 Goths US89 (1 week)
US
2019 In League with Dragons US110 (1 week)
US
2020 Songs for Pierre Chuvin US152 (... weeks)
Template: chart table / maintenance / provisional / 2020US

more publishments

Meanwhile, a large number of singles, some EPs and three compilation albums have been released. Some of the early albums, originally only available on cassette, were reissued in the early 21st century in the formats that were current at the time.

Web links

Commons : The Mountain Goats  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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  1. ↑ Charts and Awards in the All Music Guide , accessed March 11, 2008
  2. ↑ Josh Ritter in the US charts (Billboard)