Another Form of Relief

I’m incredibly tired and ill and thus have a strong desire to lay down, so I’m afraid it’ll have to be a brief one this evening. It’s also probably something all of you cool people already know about, but it was new to me so I thought I’d share it.

While idly browsing through the Mountain Goats’ website, trying to find out more about a band I criminally don’t know anywhere near enough about, I stumbled details of an unreleased 7″ called ‘Jack and Faye’. Best of all, as it was never released, it’s been made available free of charge to us good folks on the internet.

Now granted I don’t know a great deal about The Mountain Goats. I only discovered them last year when ‘The Sunset Tree’ was doing the rounds. I then got hold of ‘Tallahasse’, and I like both albums a hell of a lot. I’ve got a few other bits and pieces since then, all of which have impressed me greatly, so it was rather nice to stumble across this little bonus.

The songs themselves were recorded all the way back in late ‘95 / early ‘96, and yet they still sound incredibly fresh even today. Most of these, particularly ‘Raid on Entebbe’ could have come from their recent works, so it’s scary to think that I was only 12 when these were being recorded. Still, you don’t come here to read about me feeling the ravages of time, you’re mostly just here for the music.

MP3 The Mountain Goats – Raid On Entebbe
MP3 The Mountain Goats – Adair
MP3 The Mountain Goats – An Inscription At Salonae
MP3 The Mountain Goats – There Will Always Be An Ireland

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