Mountain Goats lay out plans for next album

It's been more than a year since The Mountain Goats' last album came out, which in John Darnielle's wildly prolific world is quite some time. But the band, as much as it is a band, laid out its plans for the next album on its website earlier today. The album, titled Heretic Pride, will be out on February 19 next year. Why not release it now?

"We are really excited about this album, and we wish it were out right now, but there is a law against releasing albums in December unless you are Queen," read the website entry. "Any album you see released in December is actually by Queen, no matter what it says on the cover. Then in January everybody is recovering from having listened to too much Queen. Hence, February. See you then!"

Uhh... sure, whatever you say.

The band also released Heretic Pride's tracklisting:

1. Sax Rohmer #1
2. San Bernardino
3. Heretic Pride
4. Autoclave
5. New Zion
6. So Desperate
7. In the Craters on the Moon
8. Lovecraft in Brooklyn
9. Tianchi Lake
10. How to Embrace a Swamp Creature
11. Marduk T-Shirt Men's Room Incident
12. Sept 15 1983
13. Michael Myers Resplendent

The album will feature artwork by Vaughan Oliver and is produced by Scott Solter and John Vanderslice, who together have worked on the Goats' last three albums. More interesting, it features guest "personnel" in the form of St. Vincent's Annie Clark, Superchunk's Jon Wurster and the Bright Mountain Choir.

In the meantime, fans can get their Mountain Goats fix at their live shows these next two months:

November
29 - New York, NY @ Knitting Factory

December
8 - London, England @ Union Chapel
9 - Manchester, England @ Moho Live
10 - Glasgow, Scotland @ Oran Mor

Related links:
Mountain-Goats.com
Paste feature on The Mountain Goats
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