The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
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Free Music Notes for Heretic Pride
Free Music Review: Solid and Refreshing
Hit: 5 Stars
If you've ever finished listening to songs like "This Year" or "No Children" and wished the energy would continue for a few more songs, this album will satisfy and refresh you. Heretic Pride is full of energy and brilliantly balanced. Darnielle seems to have loosened his grasp on the spotlight and let other instruments and musicians play a greater role in adding to this albums collage of sound. The Mountain Goats sound more like a full group than ever before. While Heretic Pride is far from the rough intimate sound of the Goats in their lo-fi era, it is beautiful and energizing in its own right and one of their most solid albums to date. Free Music Review: John Darnielle is, as usual, a genius
Hit: 5 Stars
So buy this immediately. But don't buy it used! He works hard, give the man his money. Free Music Review: The Mountain Goats Return to their Roots on Heretic Pride
Hit: 5 Stars
After a highly produced sound on his last album, John Darnielle strips down and returns to a grittier sound. This is the first album since "Coroner's Gambit" to lack an obvious central theme, but the charm and introspection of John's lyrics are not lost. John's characters are back, and doing what they know best. They join cults, are accused of being heretics, they huddle in cars together. Each song is its own little story and you truly feel for the characters.
I have been playing this album nonstop since it arrived in the mail last week. The orchestration/instrumentation is absolutely beautiful. It's very raw sounding, which i missed dearly on the last album "Get Lonely". I disagree with the reviewer that claims the instrumentation is a departure from their previous work. On the contrary, this album sounds more like previous albums such as "The Sunset Tree" and "Tallahassee". Songs such as "Sax Rohmer #1" and "Heretic Pride" have that familiar furious, frenetic driving rhythm which characterizes so much of the Mountain Goats work.
John's lyrics are as beautiful and instrospective as ever. I'd recommend this album to anyone.
Free Music Review: best album so far this year
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is spectacular from beginning to end. Beautiful melodies with stunning arrangements. The lyrics are pure brilliance. I can not say enough good things about this album.
Standout Tracks:
Sax Rohmer #1
Heretic Pride
Autoclave
So Desparate
How to Embrace a Swamp Creature
Free Music Review: New Instrumentation Marks Stark Departure from Past Albums
Hit: 3 Stars
The Mountain Goats started out as a one-man-band with John Darnielle playing guitar and singing and recording himself on a boom box and has slowly transitioned into more elaborate studio recordings since 2002's Tallahassee. The emphasis of his music has nearly always been on his excellent lyrical abilities, and on Heretic Pride those remain certainly on par with the body of his work. The problem with the new album, though, is really the knew instrumentation and the lack of a unifying theme. Three of the past four Mountain Goats albums have been tightly wound around a central character, two of them featuring stories from Darnielle's life. Now with a return to his pre-studio tradition of diverse stories about diverse characters, the cohesion of his recent albums is gone. Also, the addition of a large orchestral backing with backup singers on some song and drums and a generic-sounding rock guitar on others, the actual sound of the music has lost its personality. If you're just looking for good sounding music from one of the better living lyricists, then you might want to check this album out. But if you're expecting something similar to The Sunset Tree, Get Lonely, or Tallahassee, then I expect you will be as disappointed as I was.
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