- indie rock
- 46 min
- 13 tracks
- Merge Records
Beat the Champ is the fifteenth studio album by the Mountain Goats, released on April 7, 2015 on Merge Records. The release is a concept album on professional wrestling, though frontman John Darnielle has stated that several of its songs are "really more about death and difficult-to-navigate interior spaces than wrestling."
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Character
Spare, contemporary, classical in form and intimate.
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
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What critics gave it
Metacritic 79/100
- Rolling Stone Australia4.5/5 ★
- Alternative Press7.5/10 ★
- The A.V. ClubB
- Consequence of SoundB
- Pitchfork6.6/10
- Los Angeles Times3.5/4 ★
- Paste7.5/10
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Tracks
- 1Southwestern Territory4:14
- 2The Legend of Chavo Guerrero3:00
- 3Foreign Object2:51
- 4Animal Mask2:54
- 5Choked Out1:42
- 6Heel Turn 25:58
- 7Fire Editorial3:22
- 8Stabbed to Death Outside San Juan3:48
- 9Werewolf Gimmick2:34
- 10Luna3:27
- 11Unmasked!3:28
- 12The Ballad of Bull Ramos2:53
- 13Hair Match5:40
13 tracks, 46 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- The Mountain Goats
- Label
- Merge Records
- Released
- April 3, 2015
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- AU
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