The Mountain Goats - Dark In Here

Released25th June 2021.

SK says: "A companion piece to 2020's brilliantGetting Into Knives,Dark In Here was cut to tape almost immediately after at the legendary FAME studios. Muscle Shoals legend Spooner Oldham sits in on a set that explores nocturnal spaces, jazzy codas and darker lyrical themes without ever becoming maudlin."

"When the mountain goats got together in March 2020, it was to make not one album, but two. The idea was to again work with Matt Ross-Spang, the dashing Memphis wunderkind. Matt pitched we spend a week at Sam Phillips recording, his home base in Memphis, followed by another at the storiedFAME recording studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, a plan that dovetailed nicely with Johns notion of corralling these songs into two complementary batches: one light, one dark. the Memphis album Getting Into Knives, would be brighter, bolder, marked by rich and vibrant hues; the Muscle Sh