Английская Википедия:In League with Dragons
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In League With Dragons is the seventeenth studio album by the Mountain Goats, released on April 26, 2019, on Merge Records.[1][2] Inspired by tabletop role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, the album has been described as a "partial rock opera" with influences from noir literature.[1][3]
Background
Indie rock band the Mountain Goats released their 16th full-length studio album, Goths, on May 19, 2017, via Merge Records.[4] The album was inspired by John Darnielle's childhood enjoyment of gothic rock.[5] After supporting Jason Isbell on tour in June and July 2017, the Mountain Goats went on a North American headlining tour from September through December 2017 in support of Goths.[6]
Release
The album was announced on January 28, 2019. The announcement was accompanied by a live streaming event on Facebook and Twitch, hosted by Wizards of the Coast. The band also released three singles from the album: "Younger",[2] "Cadaver Sniffing Dog",[7] and "Sicilian Crest". The release of "Sicilian Crest" was accompanied by an hour-long discussion about the making of the song by frontman John Darnielle and podcaster Joseph Fink, on the podcast I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats; season two of the podcast will ultimately consist of a track-by-track discussion of each song on the album.[8]
The album was released on April 26, 2019, on Merge Records. Special editions of the album come with an additional 7-inch record, Sentries in the Ambush EP, featuring two non-album tracks.
Track listing
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Reception
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 77 (based on 14 reviews) indicating "generally favorable reviews".[9]
Personnel
- John Darnielle – vocals, piano, lyrics, composition
- Peter Hughes – bass
- Jon Wurster – drums, percussion
- Matt Douglas – woodwinds, guitars, vocals
- Thom Gill – guitars
- Johnny Spence – organ, Memorymoog, piano, Wurlitzer, synth
- Bram Gielen – guitars, piano, synth
- Owen Pallett – piano, organ, guitar, production
- Dan Dugmore – pedal steel
- Robert Bailey – vocal arrangements, vocals
- Everett Drake – vocals
- Jason Eskridge – vocals
- Michael Mishaw – vocals
- The Macedonian Radio Symphonic Orchestra – strings
- strings arranged by Owen Pallett, conducted by Oleg Kondratenko, engineered by Giorgi Hristovski with Atanas Babaleski
- Matt Ross-Spang – engineering
- Shani Gandhi – mixing
- Brent Lambert – mastering
- Elton D'Souza – artwork
- Daniel Murphy – design
Charts
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| Australian Digital Albums (ARIA)[10] | 33 |
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