The Sunset Tree (20th Anniversary Edition)
This should help us make it through this year. 4AD has just announced a 20th Anniversary edition on The Mountain Goats' album - 'The Sunset Tree'. While after 20+ releases we may have lost count exactly what release number it actually is, it remains one of the best from John Darnielles' indie folk band. Remastered and pressed to apricot coloured vinyl, we Love Love Love to hear it. - Flying Out
20th anniversary reissue on apricot coloured vinyl with a Chris Bigg designed OBI strip. Remastered at Abbey Road. Limited copies to be made.
The Mountain Goats is the long-running project of the prolific John Darnielle. After building a cult following throughout the ’90s with a stream of boombox-recorded releases Darnielle signed to 4AD in 2002. It marked a major shift: for the first time, he embraced the studio as a creative tool. Between 2002 and 2009, 4AD released six Mountain Goats albums, the band is still active today and are on their 22nd release.
It's a mark of Darnielle’s extraordinary fertility that, of the 800-plus songs he has recorded, only a handful directly concern his own life experience; The Sunset Tree’s 13 tracks, written after Darnielle’s stepfather passed away in December 2003, are the bulk of this small subsection Experienced as a whole, The Sunset Tree is a redemptive rather than a remorseless record. As the liner notes say: "you are going to make it out of there alive."
Features: This Year, Up The Wolves, Love Love Love.
Tracklist
- You or Your Memory
- Broom People
- This Year
- Dilaudid
- Dance Music
- Dinu Lipatti’s Bones
- Up the Wolves
- Lion’s Teeth
- Hast Thou Consider
- Magpie
- Song for Dennis Brown
- Love Love Love
- Pale Green Things