{"product_id":"mountain-goats-the-the-sunset-tree","title":"Mountain Goats, The - The Sunset Tree","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Mountain Goats is the long-running project of the prolific John Darnielle. After building a cult following throughout the '90s with a stream of boombox-recorded releases Darnielle signed to 4AD in 2002. It marked a major shift: for the first time, he embraced the studio as a creative tool. Between 2002 and 2009, 4AD released six Mountain Goats albums, the band is still active today and are on their 22nd release.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's a mark of Darnielle's extraordinary fertility that, of the 800-plus songs he has recorded, only a handful directly concern his own life experience; \u003cem\u003eThe Sunset Tree's\u003c\/em\u003e 13 tracks, written after Darnielle's stepfather passed away in December 2003, are the bulk of this small subsection. It's a collection of songs about the house that Darnielle grew up in and the people who lived there - an ensemble cast which includes Darnielle himself, an ex-girlfriend, his mother, stepfather, and sister; old friends and old enemies. \"I've put off writing about this stuff for years, \" he said at the time of it's release, \"because I'm a little squeamish about milking my own trauma for art, and getting good songs rather than cry-fests from these experiences is a really excruciating process. And also because my stepfather was still alive.\" Experienced as a whole rather than as a series of terrifying, frozen moments, \u003cem\u003eThe Sunset Tree\u003c\/em\u003e is a redemptive rather than a remorseless record. As the liner notes say : \"you are going to make it out of there alive.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTracks\u003cbr\u003e1 You or Your Memory\u003cbr\u003e2 Broom People\u003cbr\u003e3 This Year\u003cbr\u003e4 Dilaudid\u003cbr\u003e5 Dance Music\u003cbr\u003e6 Dinu Lipatti's Bones\u003cbr\u003e7 Up the Wolves\u003cbr\u003e8 Lion's Teeth\u003cbr\u003e9 Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod\u003cbr\u003e10 Magpie\u003cbr\u003e11 Song for Dennis Brown\u003cbr\u003e12 Love Love Love\u003cbr\u003e13 Pale Green Things\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Redeye","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49379080339630,"sku":"191400084230","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/6118\/0334\/files\/1914000842301.jpg?v=1789680647","url":"https:\/\/morrowrecords.com\/products\/mountain-goats-the-the-sunset-tree","provider":"Morrow Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}