The Mountain Goats John Darnielle has been a cinephile all his life, but he never created an album about the movies until this year s thrilling Bleed Out .
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Even for the famously prolific indie band The Mountain Goats, it sounds like March of last year was one hell of a productive month. The group’s strong October album,
Getting Into Knives, was recorded in one week during the beginning of the month;
Songs For Pierre Chauvin, frontman John Darnielle’s boombox-recorded cassette release from last year, was done in 10 days in the back half of the month, after the group had disbanded to their respective homes to isolate following the nationwide lockdown. Now, it turns out that during the last week before everything shut down, the band had moved from the