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The Life Of The World To Come - The Mountain Goats
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  • Summary: This is the latest album for the North Carolina-based band.

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  1. Positive: 15 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 18
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  1. MSN Consumer Guide (Robert Christgau)
    91
    This is literary rock as it should be.
  2. PopMatters
    90
    What makes The Life of the World to Come one of 2009's best albums, and the Mountain Goats' studio albums maybe the single greatest second act in modern American rock/indie/whatever music, is that he never assumes those groups are, at the heart of it all, different from each other or less deserving of our attention and compassion.
  3. Q Magazine
    60
    It's not his strongest, but facinating none the less. [Nov 2009, p.110]
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  1. db0928
    9
    A beautifully literate work that combines the intimacy of Darnielle's trilogy of autobiographic records with his masterful storytelling abilities that are so integral to the Mountain Goats. At the same time, this is easily The Mountain Goats' most musically beautiful album (by mountain goats standards, of course), in spite of the fact that the melodies and rhythms on display here are by and large amongst Darnielle's simplest and most minimalistic. All in all, this was easily among the best albums of 2009, and a fascinating and moving new direction for this consistently fantastic band (Standout tracks: "Psalms 40:2", "Genesis 3:23", "Hebrews 11:40", "Genesis 30:3", "Ezekiel 7 and The Permanent Efficacy of Grace")… Expand
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