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THE MOUNTAIN GOATS

Days is the something-somethingth album by the Mountain Goats. If that last phrase has a number in it then you will know it has been edited by bad people and you should stop reading now. If it says "something somethingth" then we are still together. Like at least two other tMG albums, specifically Goths and Beat the Champ, Days gets born one day when I have a funny idea. The idea in this case was writing a followup to Goths about the 90s and calling it Grunges. I made this joke on the popular recipes blog "Bluesky" and accompanied it with a brief ad-lib called "Contemplating Pearl Jam in the Carolina Dawn" that I recorded in my back yard.

But the thing about jokes is there's often something deeper underneath them, most theories of comedy attest to this, don't get me started. I'd written out a fake track listing for Grunges but then I wrote a poem about Layne Staley in the underworld getting rescued by Orpheus and I started thinking about the past, a popular theme among writers for many years now, and then I got both sad and smitten with wonder by how the past is a place upon which you both can & can't enact a sort of renovation: can, by changing perspectives; can't, because you can't actually move any parts around or change anything.

You think about this stuff as you get older, if you're lucky enough to be getting older.

We recorded the album at Sear Sound in Manhattan, still managed by the legendary Roberta Findlay, with whom I was fortunate enough to have a talk on the phone during the session; Rob Jost played bass on it; he plays in the pit on Death Becomes Her; he also plays French horn here. The group backing vocals are by Catherine Russsell, Jamie Leonhart, and Carolyn Leonhart; the layered backing vocals on "Hidden Majesty of Later Venom Albums" are by Janis Siegal of the Manhattan Transfer, who was tracking on another floor in the same building while we were at Sear. Giant honor for me to have Janis, I am a huge Manhattan Transfer fan. I called my old friend Matt Nathanson to add vocals to "Candlebox." He knocked it straight out of the park. Mikaela Davis added harp to "Going to Fennario." You can read about all this in the credits.

Looking back on what I've written I see that "bio" isn't exactly what you'd call this, as it tells you very little about me, or about Jon Wurster, the best drummer in rock and if you think I'm exaggerating then bless your heart, or about Matt Douglas, who plays guitars and horns & writes horn arrangements and plays keys besides. I played piano and guitar but mainly I'm the singer. Other biographical details are honestly insignificant to my way of thinking, who really cares, but I get that my opinions about this stuff are a little out of step with the zeitgeist.

This is Days by the Mountain Goats.