Newswire The Mountain Goats announce new album, Transcendental Youth

When he’s not busy celebrating Twitter milestones or doing the “acoustic guy rocking political jams” thing, The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle happily spends some time doing the “prepping a new album” thing. A new Mountain Goats full-length, Transcendental Youth, has just been announced for an Oct. 2 release on Merge Records. According to an appropriately wonky press release penned by John Hodgman, Youth will be “full of songs about people who madly, stupidly, blessedly won’t stop surviving, no matter who gives up on them.” Hodgman also reports that it is a “very good album,” and that it features “many more instruments” than Darnielle’s early efforts, including a full horn section. Why not?

Check out the cover art and full tracklist below:

1. “Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1”
2. “Lakeside View Apartments Suite”
3. “Cry For Judas”
4. “Harlem Roulette”
5. “White Cedar”
6. “Until I Am Whole”
7. “Night Light”
8. “The Diaz Brothers”
9. “Counterfeit Florida Plates”
10. “In Memory Of Satan”
11. “Spent Gladiator 2”
12. “Transcendental Youth”