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- Date Released: October 6, 2009
- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Alternative
- Label: 4AD
John Darnielle's most explicitly faith-based and musically subdued album to date
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We Say...
God has been turning up in the Mountain Goats' discography since the beginning — John Darnielle's characters hope for salvation, curse their enemies and pray for divine intervention. This time, though, Darnielle has titled all 12 of his new album's songs after Bible verses, and a lot of their language is borrowed from the language of religious discourse. Still, this isn't quite what you'd call a Christian rock album: it's not an expression of faith, exactly, but an expression of a fascination with faith, the way it manifests itself in people's lives, and the conditions under which it appears. Many of these songs' speakers are facing death — their own or other people's — and they're all in situations where the concept of existence beyond this life changes the stakes. The narrator of "Psalms 40:2" hints at doing terrible things, but he's convinced that God is specifically watching out for him; the title of "Genesis 3:23" shades its story of returning to a place that's not home any more with suggestions of the expulsion from Eden. The Life of the World to Come is also the most musically subdued Mountain Goats album to date — a couple of songs are accompanied by little more than light piano chords. There are a few flurries of volume, but most of the performances are understated enough to hear Darnielle quietly confessing with his lips.
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1 Samuel 15:23 |
4:09 |
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Psalms 40:2 |
3:16 |
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Genesis 3:23 |
3:13 |
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Philippians 3:20-21 |
3:06 |
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| 05. | |
Hebrews 11:40 |
2:51 |
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| 06. | |
Genesis 30:3 |
3:27 |
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| 07. | |
Romans 10:9 |
2:45 |
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| 08. | |
1 John 4:16 |
3:11 |
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| 09. | |
Matthew 25:21 |
5:50 |
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| 10. | |
Deuteronomy 2:10 |
3:26 |
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| 11. | |
Isaiah 45:23 |
3:40 |
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| 12. | |
Ezekiel 7 And The Permanent Efficacy Of Grace |
4:48 |
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12 Total Tracks, 43:42 Total Length
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