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Babylon Springs

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So when The Mountain Goats went on tour through Australia during the "Get Lonely" tour, they released this 5 track e.p. and it is good.
There is a cover of "Sometimes I Still Feel The Bruise" by Trembling Blue Stars that is quite wonderful as well as the song "Alibi", which is lyrically awesome.
Overall, good tunes and none of these tracks are available on any other tMG release, so check it out.
I am not sure if it is quite worth the 18 bucks or whatever Amazon wants for it. You can buy it for much cheaper if you DL it from iTunes. I would say LD it from Amazon, but for some reason they do not seem to have it, at least not at this time.

Every song on this is beautiful. The opener and his cover of "Sometimes i Still Feel The Bruise" are some of my absolute favorites in this artists long history. For me, this EP is The Mountain Goats at the top of their game.

this is only my second tMG CD and I am beginning to think John Darnielle is a real genius. Brilliant sound and amazing lyrics. His bassist Peter is extraordinary too. I saw them in Perth WA last night performing a couple of these songs. It was one of the best concerts I have ever heard.
Buy it even if you have to import it from Australia.

I have heard just about every song that John Darnielle has ever produced, and although I'd take John Darnielle's early work any day over his last few CDs, I still looked forward to hearing this EP. After listening to it about ten times, I'm still not quite sure what I think. Like many of Darnielle's songs, the songs grow on you, and you really start to love them after you know them forward and backward. "Ox Baker Triumphant" caught my attention right away, and it could be a great song, but the guitar work sounds incredibly similar to "This Year." Less is more for Darnielle. This CD, like The Sunset Tree, is simply too polished. The lyrics on all the songs are solid (much better than "The Sunset Tree," in my opinion), but the best parts of his muisc--the cracks in his voice and raw emotion and intensity that you can find in his earlier work--are missing. Darnielle is at his best when it's just him, his guitar, and his tape recorder.