The Mountain Goats - The Hound Chronicles - Hot Garden Stomp (2012) [MP3 320]

The Mountain Goats - The Hound Chronicles - Hot Garden Stomp (2012) [MP3 320]

Release Date: June 26, 2012 (1992, 1993)
Duration: 75:07
Genre: Pop/Rock
Styles: Singer/Songwriter, Indie, Lofi
Codec: MP3
Bit Rate: 320 CBR
Cover: Front

Disc 1 - The Hound Chronicles

01 The Garden Song
02 Going To Wisconsin
03 Spilling Towards Alpha
04 Alpha Negative
05 The Torch Song
06 ??? (Be Quiet)
07 The Cow Song
08 —
09 Going To Chino
10 Standard Bitter Love Song #4
11 Going To Mexico
12 Lab Rat Blues
13 Going To Kansas
14 The Water Song
15 Going To Spain
16 Keep It On Your Mind

Disc 2 - Hot Garden Stomp

01 Pure Milk
02 Ice Blue
03 Water Song II
04 Sun Song
05 Going To Japan
06 Are You Cleaning Off The Stone?
07 The Hot Garden Stomp
08 Love Hymn To Aphrodite
09 Beach House
10 Hello There Howard
11 Going To Norwalk
12 Fresh Cherries In Trinidad
13 Feed This End
14 15 I
15 Thanks For The Dress
16 Tell Me On A Sunday

Long before personal computers and the instantaneous connectivity of the internet made bedroom recording a widely accepted method of music-making, a much smaller scene of home recording artists existed in the margins of even the most fringe scenes. In the late '80s and early '90s, small runs of homemade cassettes were the primary vehicle for the homespun songs of artists like Lou Barlow, R. Stevie Moore, early artifacts of K Records and the Pacific Northwest scene, and John Darnielle's literary story songs as the Mountain Goats. Darnielle issued cassette-only albums prolifically, recording the wordy and wistful songs on boomboxes or other rudimentary equipment and releasing them with little fanfare as he continued to hone his craft and add to his discography. This remastered reissue of Hound Chronicles/Hot Garden Stomp represent some of the earliest Mountain Goats material, originally issued on cassette form on the California tape label Shrimper in 1991 and 1993, respectively. What's most immediately striking is how similar the early Mountain Goats sound is to that of Darnielle's music 20-plus years later. Though filtered through audible buzzing from whatever mechanism was putting it to tape, "Spilling Toward Alpha" has the same defeated-yet-hopeful ire and reluctant romanticism that runs through the best Mountain Goats material of any era.