The Mountain Goats HERETIC PRIDE frasier Even the heavier blues --

Even the heavier blues -- the 11-minute "In My Time of Dying

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The Mountain Goats HERETIC PRIDE frasier Even the heavier blues --THE SUNSET TREE and GET LONELY the Mountain Goats' John Darnielle completely upended the aesthetic of his first decade as a songwriter, penning nakedly autobiographical songs given ornate, cleanly recorded arrangements. With HERETIC PRIDE, Darnielle seems to be saying that that chapter of his career has concluded: although the sound of the album does not return to the deliberately noisy lo fi sound of early albums (see SWEDEN), Darnielle has reverted