#716 The Mountain Goats, Opinions on Sleater-Kinney & The Regrettes

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🗓️ 16 August 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Over the course of 17 albums, The Mountain Goats have gone from a super lo-fi solo project to a polished four piece combo. This week, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot are joined by the whole band for an exclusive performance and interview with songwriter John Darnielle and drummer Jon Wurster. They also review the new albums from Sleater-Kinney and The Regrettes.

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0:00.0	One, three, four. From W be Z Chicago and PRX. This is sound opinions. I'm Jim De Regottis.
0:26.4	And I'm Greg Kot. John Darniel of the Mountain Goats is a songwriter and novelist.
0:31.2	Unlike novels, he tries to keep it simple when writing songs.
0:34.7	A song is a single fish swimming toward the camera lens so you get a good look at him
0:38.4	before he darts out of view when the last simple splash happens. The mountain Goats join us this week for an interview and performance.
0:46.0	Plus we review the new albums from Slater Kenny and The Regrets.
0:50.0	That's all coming up on sound opinions.
0:53.0	This is Sound Opinions and later in the show we have an interview and a performance from the Mountain
1:05.8	Goats recorded live here in Chicago. But first we've got some new music to review. I'm I'm a I start my day on a tiny screen try to connect the ones that right in front of me.
1:28.6	I want to work out on the city.
1:31.8	That's a track from the new Slater Kenny album The Center won't hold the name of the track is The Future is Here
1:38.0	Slater Kenny a band that formed in Olympia Washington in 1994 made seven acclaimed studio albums. in United a few years later and put out no cities to love in 2015. The new album is now
1:57.0	out and the big news is that they are collaborating with St. Vincent aka
2:01.8	Annie Clark who's producing the album. And then soon after the
2:06.3	completion of the record, drummer Janet Weiss quit the band. She said
2:12.0	after intense deliberation and with heavy sadness I've decided
2:15.2	to leave Slater Kenny. The band is heading in a new direction and it is time for me to move on.
2:20.3	We're going to explore what that new direction is in a minute. Let's play a track from the new album. It's called on I need a real affliction.
2:35.0	Give me a reason to stay.
2:39.0	I need a new reflection.
2:42.0	Don't want... I mean a new reflection
2:44.0	don't want to see my face.
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