- indie rock
- 73 min
- 16 tracks
- Merge Records
Goths is the sixteenth studio album by the Mountain Goats, released on May 19, 2017, on Merge Records. The band has stated that Goths was inspired by an adolescence listening to The Cure, Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Joy Division, as well as hearing songs on the radio station KROQ-FM.
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Character
Classical in form, spare, grave and character-led.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
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Metacritic 83/100
- AllMusic4/5 ★
- A.V. ClubB
- Exclaim!9/10
- The Guardian4/5 ★
- Pitchfork Media8/10
- Slant Magazine4/5 ★
- The Line of Best Fit7/10
- Under The Radar8/10
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Tracks
- 1Rain in Soho4:46
- 2Andrew Eldritch Is Moving Back to Leeds4:18
- 3The Grey King and the Silver Flame Attunement4:54
- 4We Do It Different on the West Coast5:21
- 5Unicorn Tolerance5:24
- 6Stench of the Unburied4:30
- 7Wear Black4:11
- 8Paid in Cocaine3:57
- 9Rage of Travers5:54
- 10Shelved4:01
- 11For the Portuguese Goth Metal Bands4:10
- 12Abandoned Flesh3:42
- 13For the West Coast Dark Ambient Bedroom Warriors4:36
- 14Scaling the Well4:54
- 15Vanishing Act4:05
- 16Grave Dust4:23
16 tracks, 73 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- The Mountain Goats
- Label
- Merge Records
- Released
- May 19, 2017
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- XW
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