Pocket Narratives from the Mountain Goats
John Darnielle and Peter Hughes of the Mountain Goats. Stephen Dewall hide caption
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Songs: 'The Sunset Tree'
'Up the Wolves' (Performed live at NPR)
'You or Your Memory'
'Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod'
When the indie band the Mountain Goats began making music in the early 1990s, their albums were recorded on a boombox and released on cassette tapes.
The group's production values have changed, but their evocative, pocket-narrative lyrics are the same. Singer-songwriter John Darnielle, possessed of a distinctive, piercing voice, looks back at his past in the songs on the band's latest album, The Sunset Tree.
Darnielle, bassist Peter Hughes, cellist Erik Friedlander and guitarist/producer John Vanderslice join Linda Wertheimer in studio 4A to play some music and talk about the album.