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trumpeter Jerry Lloyd
Andrew Watt
it drifts slowly from mood to mood like pages in a diary: There's blissed-out romance ("Wouldn't Mean a Thing")
powerfully conveyed sonic portraits
music critic Chuck Klosterman singled out The Big Come Up as one of 21 "high-quality albums" from the previous three years
The Mountain Goats - "Tallahassee" label_Blackened Recordings trumpeter Jerry LloydJohn Darnielle's songs have always dwelled on one or a combination of five subjects, relationship conflicts, flood, water, pre Colombian Mexico mythology and talking animals. This record conjures paranoid visions of a couple permanently on the cusp of divorce who have remained drunk for so long, they're not sure of much else beyond the mutually destructive urge that holds their house together.