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Last month in Virginia was if anything better. My super strong impression of Darnielle is that he is a really giving performer, who wants to make sure you have a good time. He talks a lot to the audience: tells stories, gives us neat weird cover songs, etc. This time (unlike when he played an actual Christian arts festival!) he talked a lot about Jesus, which was v. awkward for the crowd but great for me. (You can read an recent interview he did w\/Christianity Today<\/em> here<\/a>.) At this point, too, the Mt Goats have such a huge back catalog that in the two shows I\u2019ve seen he did an almost completely different array of songs.<\/p>\n

In Virginia there were many more songs from The Sunset Tree<\/em>\u2013songs about his experience of abuse growing up, & the crowd sang along, you could tell how deeply they had needed these songs\u2013and some stuff from We Shall All Be Healed<\/em>, my favorite album of his, you won\u2019t be shocked to hear that it\u2019s the one about addiction. But also great stuff from his new joint about pro-wrestling, including an audience singalong on \u201cForeign Object\u201d! (\u201cI personally will stab you in the eye\/With a foreign object!\/Foreign object, foreign object, foreign object.\u201d) He loves to tell you about artists you may not have heard already; he loves to share things with you; he seemed, that night, to be constantly talking about Jesus without having intended to do that, just unable to really hold it back. The rippling, unshackled piano lines in \u201cLion\u2019s Tooth\u201d I hope I won\u2019t forget.<\/p>\n

The opening act was a woman named Tristen<\/a>, who sings it seems mostly about how terrifying it would be to date her. I loved it! Again I admit I had fun observing the crowd: Tristen introduces one song with, \u201cThis is a song about being the other woman,\u201d and there\u2019s a frosty American silence until one woman gives a lone whoop of misguided solidarity. And Tristen laughed at that\u2013she was in general a ton of fun to watch, playful and self-aware.<\/p>\n

I bought two of her CDs, which you can grab here<\/a>. Her style is glamorous and damaged; she was more fun in concert, less polished, yowlier, but even on CD I loved her \u201cdoomed evil queen\u201d persona. \u201cCatalyst\u201d is just a terrifically \u201980s shard of glass, reminiscent of the Eurythmics and Pat Benatar and lots of other great things. Both CDs have some gems but I think I\u2019d recommend Caves<\/em> first. Mostly I\u2019d recommend seeing her live if you can. She was bad fun, the only kind of fun there is.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"