{"id":482967,"date":"2019-03-04T10:29:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T17:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=802688"},"modified":"2019-03-04T10:29:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T17:29:54","slug":"hear-mountain-goats-grisly-new-song-cadaver-sniffing-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/hear-mountain-goats-grisly-new-song-cadaver-sniffing-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Mountain Goats\u2019 Grisly New Song \u2018Cadaver Sniffing Dog\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Mountain Goats<\/a>\u2019 John Darnielle observes a brutal crime scene in the band\u2019s new song \u201cCadaver Sniffing Dog.\u201d<\/span> \u201cHustle up the spiral stairs, see if anything\u2019s left up there\/Teams on the scene from several stations; everybody, adjust your expectations,\u201d he sings over a shadowy guitar riff and muted bass. \u201cStray clumps of hair and blood and brain, fragments of bone in the drain\/Rookies trying to keep the airway clear, but the damage is too severe.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The arrangement\u2019s color palette expands as the track winds on, incorporating strings, backing vocals and a snarling guitar break\u2014an atmosphere that lands somewhere between chamber-pop and kraut-rock.<\/span> \u201cCadaver Sniffing Dog\u201d highlights the prolific indie-rock band\u2019s upcoming LP, In League With Dragons<\/em><\/a>. Darnielle crafted a partial rock opera with the 12-track record, which he touted as a new style called \u201cdragon noir.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis album began life as a rock opera about a besieged seaside community called Riversend ruled by a benevolent wizard, for which some five to seven songs were written,\u201d Darnielle said in a statement announcing the album.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAs I worked on the Riversend stuff, weird noir visions started creeping in\u2026 I thought these moods helped complicate the wizards and dragons a little, and, as I thought about my wizard, his health failing, the invasion by sea almost certain to wipe out half his people, I thought about what such a person might look like in the real world: watching a country show at a midwestern casino, or tryout pitching for an American League team years after having lit up the marquees.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Mountain Goats will promote the LP on a North American tour<\/a> that launches April 26th in Washington D.C.<\/span><\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Mountain Goats\u2019 John Darnielle observes a brutal crime scene in the band\u2019s new song \u201cCadaver Sniffing Dog.\u201d \u201cHustle up the spiral stairs, see if anything\u2019s left up there\/Teams on the scene from several stations; everybody, adjust your expectations,\u201d he sings over a shadowy guitar riff and muted bass. \u201cStray clumps of hair and blood […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-482967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 22:01:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}