The Village Voice, February 20th, 2008
God Is Not Great
The delusional tragic heroes of Mountain Goats songs are as doomed as ever
John Damielle's songs operate with the grace of a slasher movie: precise in their depiction of messy situations (and vice versa), triumphant even in desperation, usually grisly, sometimes hilarious. His meth addicts have the wherewithal to tell you the exact street corner on which they are slowly and almost certainly dying; a couple of minutes later, responding to the promise of a friend sending more "electrical equipment," they say things like "That's good, we could always use some more electrical eq...
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