The Mountain Goats "Days" 2025-01-17 Steve Albini and more

Steve Albini and more

"We're not afraid to stretch the boundaries - but we do know how to stay in our lane when we need to

On ‘Stranger Things’ (Down the Rabbit Hole Version) I wanted to go for a stripped back ethereal version of this song originally played by the full band on City of Gold

after which he inexplicably morphs into a young mechanic and begins a new life

The Mountain Goats "Days" 2025-01-17 Steve Albini and moreThese songs are loosely about the 70s, 80s, and 90s, which is to say theyre 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.