aaamusic | On 26, Feb 2011

The Mountain Goats début ‘Birth Of Serpents’, one of the Erik Rutan-produced songs from their forthcoming, All Eternals Deck, on the David Letterman Show on Wednesday night.

Watch it here on Stereogum

Don’t miss The Mountain Goats UK tour in May:

Sunday 22nd May – Dublin, Whelans  (www.ticketmaster.ie / www.tickets.ie)
Tuesday 24th May – Brighton, Coalition  (www.ticketweb.co.uk / www.seetickets.com)
Wednesday 25th May – London, KOKO  (www.ticketweb.co.uk )
Friday 27th May – Manchester, Academy 3  (www.gigsandtours.com)
Saturday 28th May – Leeds, Brudenell Social Club (www.jumborecords.co.uk)
Sunday 29th May – Glasgow, King Tuts  (www.gigsinscotland.com)
Monday 30th May – Newcastle, Cluny ( www.ticketweb.co.uk)

New album, All Eternals Deck will be released in the UK on the 4th April on Tomlab.

In 2010, the band signed to Merge Records, head-quartered within walking distance of Darnielle’s Durham, North Carolina home.  The band approached recording sessions for All Eternals Deck as commando raids on multiple studios with several producers: four songs at North Carolina’s Fidelitorium with John Congleton; one at Q Division in Boston with long-time sound-man, Brandon Eggleston; four at Brooklyn’s Mission Sound with Scott Solter; and four at Mana Recording Studios in Florida, with Morbid Angel guitarist and Hate Eternal helmsman, Erik Rutan.

“We wanted to see how disparate seasons and moods and locations and producers would play out in the songs,” explains Darnielle. The result? “If you’ve ever watched, say, a 70s occult-scare movie where one of the scenes involves a few people visiting a store front fortune teller, getting their cards read, and then they’re trying to feel super-hopeful about their predicted outcome when what they’re visibly actually feeling is dread, then you have a pretty decent idea of what this album is all about.”