For quite a while now, The Mountain Goats have established themselves as a sort of thinking person’s indie darlings, combining some stylish music with equally stylish and, at the same time, substantive lyrics. At the same time, they developed their music from a strictly folky, singer-songwriter style to something more detailed and elaborate.
Sticking to such a development line, Through The This Fire Across From Peter Balkan, their latest offering takes another step further. It turns out to be a concept album where John Darnielle, Matt Douglas (the album’s producer here), and Jon Wurster decided to go come in with more detailed musical structures, often with full orchestra backing, without slacking in their constantly excellent lyrics department.

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