john’s redemption

The Mountain Goats – Genesis 3:23

New Goats album coming out in October.  Each song title makes reference to a part of the Bible, and, as John says on his website, the album is “twelve new songs: twelve hard lessons the Bible taught me, kind of.”  Okay, another concept, but a little less of a concept maybe.  A bit looser like Heretic Pride was.

The posted song (I guess the single?) seems to occupy the same sonic space as “How To Embrace A Swamp Creature” or “Autoclave” or “Half Dead” — songs from his two previous long efforts.  Poppy ones with repetitive choruses.  This is okay I guess.  I’ll like it, I’m sure.

I’m not really looking for that expressive desperation and sexual tension and whatever that’s so central in Goats’ songs, I think I just want something (drastically) new.  And maybe this has to be it.  We’ll see.  On first glance it seems like this song is less “in the moment” than previous work — it’s more contemplative and reflexive, like the man-of-harsh-past-experiences looking backwards to the way things once were.  Check it out.