The Mountain Goats "Tallahassee" LP

John Darnielle's songs have always dwelled on one or a combination of five subjects, relationship conflicts, flood, water, pre-Colombian Mexico mythology and talking animals. This record conjures paranoid visions of a couple permanently on the cusp of divorce who have remained drunk for so long, they're not sure of much else beyond the mutually destructive urge that holds their house together. 1 Tallahassee2 First Few Desperate Hours3 Southwood Plantation Road4 Games Shows Touch Our Lives5 House That Dripped Blood6 Idylls of the King7 No Children8 See America Right9 Peacocks10 International Small Arms Traffic Blues11 Have to Explode12 Old College Try13 Oceanographer's Choice14 Alpha Rats Nest