Merge Records will soon reissue The Mountain Goats' The Coroner's Gambit on LP, cd, and cassette. First released in 2000 the album is long out of print, now returning with new liner noted and limited release in the varied formats.
John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats states:
There are few records in the Mountain Goats catalog that are closer to my heart than The Coroner's Gambit. It bears a sonic thumbprint shared by none of its brethren (Panasonic RX-FT500, Marantz PMD-222, and sessions in Omaha probably recorded to a Tascam Porta-One) and while two of those sources appear on several later releases, none of the other records really sound like it. Although it contains exactly no autobiographical songs, it feels personal to me — intimate, diaristic. I have vivid memories of the songs I wrote and recorded in Colo, and foggy memories of the Greyhound trip to & from Omaha. I was taking Greyhounds across midwestern state lines to record songs with friends when I made The Coroner's Gambit, is what I'm saying. You can maybe hear the exhaust of the Greyhound in the songs if you listen close.
The reissue will release on June 28 via Merge Records.
the Mountain Goats on tour:
May 21 Bristol, UK – Beacon*
May 22 London, UK – Roundhouse*
May 24 Glasgow, UK – Barrowland Ballroom*
May 25 Manchester, UK – Albert Hall*
May 26 Dublin, IE – Vicar Street*
May 28 Barcelona, ES – Primavera Sound
Jul 24 Carrboro, NC – Merge 35 (John Darnielle Solo)
Aug 04 Vienna, VA – Wolf Trap+
* w/Gently Tender
+ w/The New Pornographers
