In anticipation of the release of the next Mountain Goats album, coming out at the end of the month, I have been listening to the entire back discography of the band and for some reason I have been coming back to this album. Let us consider this magnificent album and the ramifications of its release on the band and the direction that it started to take after it, leading up to the forthcoming album, All Eternals Deck.

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