The Mountain Goats have announced they’re reissuing The Coroner’s Gambit, their long out-of-print 2000 album. The classic LP will be released on “kandy korn” colored vinyl, CD, and—for the first time ever—cassette. All versions will be released on June 28 via Merge and feature new liner notes written by singer-guitarist John Darnielle. On the Mountain Goats’ Bandcamp and in the Merge store, a limited number of copies of The Coroner’s Gambit will be “housed in a paper bag featuring the printed liner notes” in a nod to the original release.
Darnielle recorded The Coroner’s Gambit in numerous locations, with five songs being tracked in Omaha, Nebraska, five more in Colo, Iowa, and the rest in Ames, Iowa. In a statement, Darnielle reflected on the transitory nature of the album:
In 2023, the Mountain Goats released the new album Jenny From Thebes. Also last year, Darnielle made a cameo on Rian Johnson’s TV show Poker Face, where, in the episode “Rest in Metal,” he starred as a guitarist in the one-hit-wonder metal band Doxxxology.
Read the interview “Inside John Darnielle’s Boiling Brain.”
Source : Pitchfork
