THE MOUNTAIN GOATS - BEAT THE CHAMP - 2-LP - VINYL LP ALEX CHILTON

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS - BEAT THE CHAMP - 2-LP - VINYL LP ALEX CHILTONDouble vinyl LP pressing include digital download. 2015 release from the veteran indie folk band led by John Darnielle. Beat the Champ is about professional wrestling, which was an avenue of escape for me when I was a kid. Wrestling was low budget working class entertainment back then, strictly UHF material. It was cheap theater. You had to bring your imagination to the proceedings and you got paid back double. I wrote these songs to re immerse myself

following 1989's We Too Are One

recording artist

rests in the many visual shout-outs to Dylan's career (they're all explained in an endnote)

his Beatle-busting love affair with a Japanese performance artist

11 Five Days

"Come On Feel was home to some of his best

who would go on to work with the band over numerous other releases

" - Archivist David Lemieux

Poet and essayist Hanif Abdurraqib digs into the group’s history and draws from his own experience to reflect on how its distinctive sound resonated among fans like himself

and Nineteen85 provide production while additional famous guests include PARTYNEXTDOOR

1 Have You Ever Loved a Woman (Live at the Fillmore

2014 import reissue