{"product_id":"the-mountain-goats-the-sunset-tree-lp-20th-anniversary-apricot-vinyl","title":"THE MOUNTAIN GOATS 'THE SUNSET TREE' LP (20th Anniversary, Apricot Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eLABEL: 4Ad\u003cbr\u003eVINYL RELEASE DATE: \u003cspan\u003e10\/17\/2025\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 2005\u003cbr\u003eVARIANT: 20th Anniversary Edition, Apricot Vinyl LP\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Mountain Goats is the long-running project of the prolific John Darnielle. After building a cult following throughout the ’90s with a stream of boombox-recorded releases Darnielle signed to 4AD in 2002. It marked a major shift: for the first time, he embraced the studio as a creative tool. Between 2002 and 2009, 4AD released six Mountain Goats albums, the band is still active today and are on their 22nd release. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIt's a mark of Darnielle’s extraordinary fertility that, of the 800-plus songs he has recorded, only a handful directly concern his own life experience; The Sunset Tree’s 13 tracks, written after Darnielle’s stepfather passed away in December 2003, are the bulk of this small subsection. It’s a collection of songs about the house that Darnielle grew up in and the people who lived there — an ensemble cast which includes Darnielle himself, an ex-girlfriend, his mother, stepfather, and sister; old friends and old enemies. \"I've put off writing about this stuff for years,\" he said at the time of its release, \"because I’m a little squeamish about milking my own trauma for art, and getting good songs rather than cry-fests from these experiences is a really excruciating process. And also because my stepfather was still alive.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eExperienced as a whole rather than as a series of terrifying, frozen moments, The Sunset Tree is a redemptive rather than a remorseless record. As the liner notes say : \u003cbr\u003e\"you are going to make it out of there alive.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MATADOR DIRECT","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67767587242078,"sku":"THE-MOUNTAIN-GOATS-THE-SUNSET-TREE-APRICOT-LP-4216","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0280\/0484\/3614\/files\/191400084216-CoverArtImage1_84767cfc-d3df-4f89-b989-89ee8d11f0c6.jpg?v=1792179613","url":"https:\/\/shop.revolvermag.com\/products\/the-mountain-goats-the-sunset-tree-lp-20th-anniversary-apricot-vinyl","provider":"Revolver Magazine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}