The Mountain Goats are John Darnielle, Peter Hughes, Jon Wurster, and Matt Douglas. They have been making music together as a quartet for several years. Three of them live in North Carolina and one has moved back to Rochester. Their songs often seek out dark lairs within which terrible monsters dwell, but their mission is to retrieve the treasure from the dark lair and persuade the terrible monsters inside to seek out the path of redemption. As Axl Rose once memorably asked, in the song "Terrible Monster": "what's so terrible about monsters, anyway?" This is the question The Mountain Goats have been doggedly pursuing since 1991. They will never leave off this quest until every option has been exhausted.

Tracklist

A1 Done Bleeding
A2 Younger
A3 Passaic 1975
B1 Clemency For The Wizard King
B2 Possum By Night
B3 In League With Dragons
C1 Doc Gooden
C2 Going Invisible 2
C3 Waylon Jennings Live!
D1 Cadaver Sniffing Dog
D2 An Antidote For Strychnine
D3 Sicilian Crest