- folk rock
- 45 min
- 13 tracks
- 4AD
Heretic Pride is the eleventh studio album by the Mountain Goats, released in the UK on February 18, 2008, and in the US on February 19 by 4AD, their sixth album on the label. It is the first to feature the band's lineup of John Darnielle, Peter Hughes, and Jon Wurster. The album was produced by Scott Solter and John Vanderslice.
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Spare, classical in form, grave and character-led.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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Metacritic 74/100
- Allmusic4/5 ★
- Blender3/5 ★
- Crawdaddy!(favorable)
- The Guardian4/5 ★
- NME4/5 ★
- Paste Magazine4/5 ★
- Pitchfork(8.0/10)
- Slant2.5/5 ★
- Sputnikmusic4/5 ★
- Twisted Ear4/5 ★
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Tracks
- A1Sax Rohmer #13:40
- A2San Bernardino3:19
- A3Heretic Pride3:42
- A4Autoclave3:33
- A5New Zion2:54
- A6So Desperate3:21
- A7In the Craters on the Moon3:31
- B1Lovecraft in Brooklyn3:49
- B2Tianchi Lake3:20
- B3How to Embrace a Swamp Creature3:27
- B4Marduk T-Shirt Men’s Room Incident3:21
- B5Sept 15th 19833:43
- B6Michael Myers Resplendent2:52
13 tracks, 45 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- The Mountain Goats
- Label
- 4AD
- Released
- 2008
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- GB
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