The Mountain Goats are releasing a new album, “Days”, on August 7th on the band’s own Cadmean Dawn Records via Thirty Tigers. Now they have released its second single, “Shallow Grave.”
The band has also announced a six-show residency in San Francisco at The Fillmore, where each night will have a different theme and set list.
Previously the band shared its first single, “Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds,” The band’s core lineup is John Darnielle, Matt Douglas, and Jon Wurster.
“I got the idea for ‘Shallow Grave’ at a stoplight and recorded the first bits of it a capella into my phone,” John Darnielle said of the sprightly new single from the Mountain Goats’ new LP “Days”. “Came home and blazed through the rest old school style. Got very excited! Sent it to friends! Everybody bopped! Carrie White’s mom, or Carrie White’s arm? The jury is still out! Poetic license strikes again! Please enjoy what has already been called, by me, ‘the song of the summer’: Shallow Grave! Shallow Grave! Shallow Grave!”
Darnielle had this to say in a previous press release: “This album began life as “Grunges“, a sequel to “Goths“, after I made a joke on social media about writing a song called ‘Contemplating Pearl Jam in the Carolina Dawn.’ A few months later my wife left town for a two week residency in Virginia. My wife leaving town to play hockey in Banff is how All Hail West Texas happened. These songs are loosely about the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, which is to say they’re about the accumulation of days, each one a little further back than the next, sometimes miraculously seeming clearer as they recede and sometimes blurring into unrecognizable shapes which are sometimes pleasant and sometimes troubling. Most songs here are in major keys but don’t let that fool you. If you do let that fool you I have a bridge to sell you; there is nothing on the other side of the bridge. Still, you shouldn’t let that deter you. Who am I to tell you what kind of bridge you need, or where the bridge you need should lead? Nobody, really. Nobody at all.”
distributed by Thirty Tigers Released on: 2026-06-10
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