Mountain Goats Preview New Album ‘Days’ With ‘Charlie Sheen Reaches Out To The Feds’ Single

The Mountain Goats are back with a new single, “Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds.” The track heralds the group’s newly announced album, Days, due out on August 7 through their own Cadmean Dawn Records.

Days is Mountain Goats’ 24th full-length album. The band’s John Darnielle, Matt Douglas and Jon Wurster took to Sear Sound in Manhattan to cut the record. After working with the band on 2011’s All Eternals Deck, renowned producer John Congleton reconvened with Mountain Goats to helm Days.

The LP also saw contributions from Rob Jost on bass/French horn, Mikaela Davis on harp and backing vocals from Catherine Russell, Jamie Leonhart, Carolyn Leonhart, Janis Siegel and Matt Nathanson.

Mountain Goats leader John Darnielle further detailed Days:

“This album began life as Grunges, a sequel to Goths, after I made a joke on social media about writing a song called ‘Contemplating Pearl Jam in the Carolina Dawn.’ A few months later my wife left town for a two week residency in Virginia. My wife leaving town to play hockey in Banff is how All Hail West Texas happened. These songs are loosely about the 70s, 80s, and 90s, which is to say they’re about the accumulation of days, each one a little further back than the next, sometimes miraculously seeming clearer as they recede and sometimes blurring into unrecognizable shapes which are sometimes pleasant and sometimes troubling. Most songs here are in major keys but don’t let that fool you. If you do let that fool you I have a bridge to sell you; there is nothing on the other side of the bridge. Still, you shouldn’t let that deter you. Who am I to tell you what kind of bridge you need, or where the bridge you need should lead? Nobody, really. Nobody at all.”

Preview Days with the lead single “Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds” below:

Days Tracklist:

1. Song for Layne Staley
2. Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds
3. Shallow Grave
4. Candlebox
5. Annie Haslam Imperial Phase
6. Crying on Eddie Nash’s Grave
7. Days
8. Best Hard Rock Albums 2013
9. Going to Fennario
10. Woodstock
11. Hidden Majesty of Later Venom Albums
12. Last Day