Photo by Jaime Butler


The Mountain Goats have announced a new record, titled Dark in Here. The album is due out June 25 via Merge. The band also released the first single from the record, “Mobile.”

Dark in Here was recorded at FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Ala. The band recorded the album during the week between the tracking of their previous two releases, Getting Into Knives and Songs for Pierre Chuvin.

“Mobile” features Muscle Shoals session musicians Spooner Oldham (keyboards) and Will McFarlane (guitar).

“One of my quarantine projects after getting home was going back to Moby Dick and actually finishing it for once, and I was amused to encounter early on the retelling of the story of Jonah,” said bassist Peter Hughes of the new single. “If Melville gives it to us as a fiery 19th century New Bedford sermon, what “Mobile” offers might be understood as Father Mapple’s modern-day Gulf Coast flip side, the breeziness of McFarlane’s electric guitar and Matt Douglas’ accordion belying its protagonist’s guilty conscience.”

Listen to the new track and pre-order Dark in Here here.