Mountain Goats, The - Transcendental Youth

John Hodgman wrote:

Transcendental Youth is full of songs about people who madly, stupidly, blessedly won’t stop surviving, no matter who gives up on them.

I can report that it is a very good album and has many more instruments on it than his early cassette tapes, including Peter Hughes on bass, Jon Wurster on drums, and, for the first time, a full horn section. And all of this makes a very joyous noise.

• Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1
• Lakeside View Apartments Suite
• Cry for Judas
• Harlem Roulette
• White Cedar
• Until I Am Whole
• Night Light
• The Diaz Brothers
• Counterfeit Florida Plates
• In Memory of Satan
• Spent Gladiator 2
• Transcendental Youth