The Mountain Goats have announced the release of their next full-length record, All Eternals Deck, a 13-track effort recorded in four separate studios in North Carolina, Brooklyn, Boston, and Florida, with four producers helming the boards on various tracks: John Congleton, Brandon Eggleston, Scott Solter, and ex-Morbid Angel axeman and current Hate Eternal frontman Erik Rutan. In a press release, John Darnielle provided the following intriguing description of what’s to come:
If you have ever watched say a 70s occult-scare movie where one of the scenes involves a few people visiting a storefront fortune teller, getting their cards read, and then trying to feel super-hopeful about their predicted outcome when what they’re visibly actually feeling is dread, then you have a pretty decent idea of what the album is all about. Other possible points of reference include ‘Burnt Offerings,’ ‘Go Ask Alice,’ and that one scene in ‘The Warriors’ where they’re on the train and the sun’s coming up and they’re safe but you know the scars are permanent now.
All Eternals Deck arrives on March 29 via Merge. Check out the tracklist below:
All Eternals Deck
01. Damn These Vampires
02. Birth of Serpents
03. Estate Sale Sign
04. Age of Kings
05. The Autopsy Garland
06. Beautiful Gas Mask
07. High Hawk Season
08. Prowl Great Cain
09. Sourdoire Valley Song
10. Outer Scorpion Squadron
11. For Charles Bronson
12. Never Quite Free
13. Liza Forever Minnelli