{"product_id":"mountain-goats-the-the-sunset-tree-lp","title":"MOUNTAIN GOATS, THE - THE SUNSET TREE LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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 22\u003csup\u003end\u003c\/sup\u003e release.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\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; \u003ci\u003eThe Sunset Tree\u003c\/i\u003e’s 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. \u003ci\u003e\"I've put off writing about this stuff for years,\"\u003c\/i\u003e he said at the time of its release, \u003ci\u003e\"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.\" \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExperienced as a whole rather than as a series of terrifying, frozen moments, \u003ci\u003eThe Sunset Tree\u003c\/i\u003e is a redemptive rather than a remorseless record. As the liner notes say :\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"center\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"you are going to make it out of there alive.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BLACK DOTS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50728014479522,"sku":"qdy1793044286406","price":19.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/1198\/9666\/files\/mountain-goats-the---the-sunset-tree-lp_1.jpg?v=1793044291","url":"https:\/\/vicunafineclad.shop\/products\/mountain-goats-the-the-sunset-tree-lp","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}