Description
Originally released in October 2000, The Coroners Gambit finds John Darnielle between physical and sonic spaces, five of its sixteen songs recorded in Simon Joyners Omaha, Nebraska, studio, five more at home in Colo, Iowa, and the rest in Ames. The album came together slowly; the Mountain Goats had released music every year from 1991 to 1998, but between the release of that years New Asian Cinema EP and The Coroners Gambit, 1999 passed without an official Mountain Goats release. The additional time that went into The Coroners Gambit paid off: it is a breakthrough for Darnielle as a songwriter and practitioner of the full-length album. His characters are sharply drawn, the immaculately appointed lore of the worlds they occupy providing them some shelter from the storm.
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