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- Record Label: Cadmean Dawn
- Release Date: Nov 7, 2025
- Summary: Lin-Manuel Miranda provids backing vocals on the latest full-length release from John Darnielle's The Mountain Goats that was created from notes about a dream Darnielle had.
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- Record Label: Cadmean Dawn
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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- Nov 19, 2025Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan is the best Mountain Goats album in a decade, maybe even since Transcendental Youth.
- Nov 7, 2025It’s sumptuously crafted, full of gallows humour and – as with so much of Darnielle’s best work – delving below the surface reveals layers of deeper meaning about humanity, togetherness and the precious joys of being alive.
- Nov 7, 2025This music confirms the Mountain Goats have talent that's on par with their ambitions, and this album is a thoughtful, dramatically satisfying experience.
- Record CollectorDec 2, 2025Start casting the stage version now. [Christmas 2025, p.134]
- Nov 7, 2025For all the tumult of its premise, Through This Fire is a surprisingly pleasant listen—sweeping, mid-tempo, decorous even when the subject matter calls for chaos.
- Nov 12, 2025It’s definitely a more expansive palette, and not entirely to my taste, but I’ll defend any artist who takes a chance like this.
- Nov 18, 2025An unusually linear Mountain Goats record full of powerful moments that not even the eternally moving Darnielle can scrape into the whole it deserves.
