{"id":53228,"date":"2025-09-09T15:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/53228\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T15:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:52:08","slug":"the-mountain-goats-announce-new-album-share-new-song-armies-of-the-lord-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/53228\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mountain Goats Announce New Album, Share New Song \u201cArmies of the Lord\u201d: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just last month, the Mountain Goats<\/a> announced a 20th-anniversary reissue<\/a> of their 2005 LP The Sunset Tree<\/a>. Now, they\u2019re back with the news of their next album. Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan<\/a> is out November 7 via the band\u2019s own label, Cadmean Dawn<\/a>. Listen to lead single \u201cArmies of the Lord<\/a>,\u201d which features backing vocals from Lin-Manuel Miranda<\/a>, below.<\/p>\n

John Darnielle<\/a> explained the new album\u2019s concept in a press statement: \u201cThere were 16 men on a fishing boat, but only three survived the storm, and one of those went missing, and is presumed dead. That leaves me and Peter Balkan, whose health is failing as his apocalyptic visions dissipate in the spray at the shore.\u201d<\/p>\n

Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan follows 2023\u2019s Jenny From Thebes<\/a>. The Replacements\u2019 Tommy Stinson and harpist Mikaela Davis make guest appearances, alongside Miranda and bassist, Cameron Ralston, who joined the band following the departure<\/a> of longtime bassist and backup vocalist Peter Hughes last year. The Mountain Goats will kick off a North American tour<\/a> later this month.<\/p>\n

Revisit the interview \u201cInside John Darnielle\u2019s Boiling Brain<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

All products featured on Pitchfork are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission.<\/p>\n

\"Through<\/a><\/p>\n

The Mountain Goats: Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan<\/p>\n

Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

01 Overture
02 Fishing Boat
03 Cold at Night
04 Dawn of Revelation
05 Your Bandage
06 Peru
07 Through This Fire
08 Rocks in My Pockets
09 Armies of the Lord
10 Your Glow
11 The Lady From Shanghai 2
12 Broken to Begin With<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just last month, the Mountain Goats announced a 20th-anniversary reissue of their 2005 LP The Sunset Tree. Now,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[1735,18,117,19,17,337,340],"class_list":{"0":"post-53228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-new-releases"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}