Blog: Cannibal Cheerleader

John Darnielle represents quite possibly the darkest corner of the singer-songwriter mystique - a once drug-addled, abused youth with no direction and nothing to live for who has managed to pen his sharp and painful past into pictures of a shadowy underworld, a poetic realization of an America long forgotten. And while the Mountain Goats , the moniker under which Darnielle performs, have recently released a pair of albums with more lighthearted instrumentation ( Get Lonely and Heretic Pride ) the song nonetheless remains the same. On his newest record The Life of the World to [...]

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