{"id":484565,"date":"2019-04-11T10:10:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T16:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=821058"},"modified":"2019-04-11T10:10:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T16:10:07","slug":"hear-mountain-goats-gentle-new-song-of-heretics-blood-sicilian-crest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/hear-mountain-goats-gentle-new-song-of-heretics-blood-sicilian-crest\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Mountain Goats\u2019 Gentle New Song of Heretics\u2019 Blood, \u2018Sicilian Crest\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/mountain-goats.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/mountain-goats\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mountain-goats\" data-tag=\"mountain-goats\">Mountain Goats<\/a> frontman John Darnielle sings of prophecies, deviltry and heretics\u2019 blood on the gentle, almost Genesis-like light rocker \u201cSicilian Crest,\u201d a song off the group\u2019s upcoming <em>In League With Dragons<\/em> LP. The song has a jaunty synthesizer part, flickering piano and skittering drumming, all swirling around Darnielle\u2019s lilting vocal. You\u2019ll be able to hear the song in the full context of <em>Dragons<\/em> when the LP comes out on April 24th.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Sicilian Crest,\u2019 lyrically, is more reminiscent of early Mountain Goats than anything since a couple of the songs on <em>Heretic Pride<\/em> \u2014 but [it] began life as an incomprehensible title in a notebook, has its genesis in playing around at the piano with my son while a Moridira Hurricane and a Fender Twin on standby stood close at hand, and ended up being a cryptically political dance number with shades of New Order or the Alarm,\u201d Darnielle said in a statement. \u201cMy bandmates are going to kill me for referencing the Alarm in this announcement, and one of them will kill me twice if I don\u2019t mention that the Alarm\u2019s drummer\u2019s name was \u2018Twist.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Darnielle launched the song with a new episode of his podcast, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nightvalepresents.com\/ionlylistentothemountaingoats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats<\/a><\/em>, which he cohosts with Joseph Fink, who hosts his own podcast, <em>Welcome to Night Vale<\/em>. The new <em>Goats<\/em> season will provide a look into Darnielle\u2019s creative process and will include demos for each of the songs on the album. The episode out today focuses on \u201cSicilian Crest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the day the album comes out, Mountain Goats will embark on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountain-goats.com\/tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">lengthy tour<\/a>. It will kick off in Washington D.C. and run into the fall with a mix of North American and international dates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/mountain-goats-new-sicilian-crest-821058\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle sings of prophecies, deviltry and heretics\u2019 blood on the gentle, almost Genesis-like light rocker \u201cSicilian Crest,\u201d a song off the group\u2019s upcoming In League With Dragons LP. The song has a jaunty synthesizer part, flickering piano and skittering drumming, all swirling around Darnielle\u2019s lilting vocal. You\u2019ll be able to hear [&hellip;]<\/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-484565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 03:30:15","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\/484565","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=484565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}