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OUT NOW!
NEW RELEASE SPECIAL through April 30! Order both Zopilote Machine and Nothing for Juice on CD for only $20 ppd. in the U.S. (see special cart button below). Foreign orders can still get the new release special, but need to add additional shipping depending on your country (see our Foreign Shipping page for info).
| 1996's Nothing
for Juice stands apart in the vast Mountain Goats
discography as being the first album by the band recorded mostly in an
actual studio (by engineer pal and Inland Empire fixture Bob Durkee), featuring
the mid-'90s touring lineup of singer/songsmith John Darnielle on
guitar and bassist Rachel Ware on harmonies. And that's not all:
there are interesting covers of Robert Johnson's "Hellhound
on My Trail" and a tune that Chet Baker once covered ("Moon
and Sand"), current setlist mainstay "It Froze Me," a
redux version of an earlier Mountain Goats favorite in "Alpha Double
Negative: Going to Catalina," and a real sonic treat in the transcontinental,
through-the-mail collaboration with Germany-via-New Zealand guitarist/stringed
instrument mastermind Graeme Jefferies (This Kind of Punishment, the Cakekitchen)
on three of the album's standout tracks. These songs ("Full
Flower," "Going to Reykjavík" and "Going
to Kansas") combine Graeme's regal Flying V guitar slash and
his friend Steffi Böhm's icy violin skitter with the Goats' frantic
acoustic-based sound to great effect – a huge wall of sound wrapped
around the "core" MG style. The album is an incredibly varied explosion of ideas and inputs that finds the band spreading its wings and prodding at the edges of its signature sound, and it truly stands alone in the band's repertoire. Nothing for Juice has been out of print for 4 years, and original copies of the CD have been selling for $25-$40 on Ebay consistently, so this reissue should find a welcoming new audience of recent converts to the band.
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| Track listing: 1. Then
the Letting Go |
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