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The Mountain Goats 
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John Darnielle is a troubadour in the truest sense. In what is essentially a solo project with a revolving door of musicians, Darnielle utilizes his nasal (love it or hate it) voice and frantic acoustic guitar strumming to weave lyrical and highly metaphorical tales, epic in scope and dysfunctional in nature. At least I'm pretty sure they're dysfunctional, as oftentimes I have no idea what he's talking about. But with songs about vultures and Linda Blair, functional would be the last adjective I'd use.

Beyond prolific, The Mountain Goats have put out dozens of releases on over a dozen labels. Darnielle honed his songwriting craft while working as a psychiatric nurse at a California State Hospital. While there, he began to release his albums on cassettes (and only cassettes) and continued to do so for years.

Lately he's made nice with compact discs. The Mountain Goats' most recent release, We Shall All Be Healed, seems destined for legendary status. There's nothing categorical or clich← about this band. They're wonderfully weird with a strangeness that truly satisfies. It's Darnielle's world. We just scratch our heads and say, "Huh?" in it.
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Anamanaguchi
Battles
Box Elders
Boys Noize
Cajun Dance Party
Casiokids
Cymbals Eat Guitars
Deastro
Deleted Scenes
Disappears
Eddy Current Suppression Ring


 F - O

Fiasco
Goes Cube
Golden City
The Golden Filter
Handsome Furs
Horse Feathers
Hot Chip
Iron and Wine
Japandroids
Justice
Kurt Vile
Lemonade
Lo-Fi-Fnk
Mi Ami
Mogwai
The National
Obits


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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Passion Pit
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School of Seven Bells
Simian Mobile Disco
Slow Club
The Soft Pack
Sonic Youth
Sufjan Stevens
The Thermals
Tokyo Police Club
The War on Drugs
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We Were Promised Jetpacks
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