New Mountain Goats record forthcoming

The ever-prolific John Darnielle announced today that The Mountain Goats’ new record, Transcendental Youth, would be released October 2nd on Merge Records. John discusses the origins of and inspiration behind the record here, and Consequence of Sound has the tracklist and the astoundingly great artwork. A limited edition pre-order of the album with a bonus 7″ will be available from Merge in a few weeks.

Darnielle is one of my favorite working songwriters, and The Mountain Goats have yet to disappoint me. Last year’s All Eternal’s Deck was one of their most varied and sonically interesting records yet, so I’m very much eager to here what’s in store this time around. The fact that Darnielle has already referred to this as the band’s “Satan record” has me extra stoked.