The Mountain Goats - Getting Into Knives 2LP xx1999 It has been nine years

It has been nine years since their last release

California's Howlin Rain return with The Alligator Bride

The whole “five band years = a lifetime” biz trope is justified

The 10 gurgling innards effortlessly spewed out here rank it alongside other Moltenadelic CO-2 snuffers such as Ilitch's 'Periodik Mindtrouble' & Junji Hirose + Yoshihide Otomo's 'Silanganan Ingay'

The Mountain Goats - Getting Into Knives 2LP xx1999 It has been nine yearsThere is always water. In flowing rivers, in falling raindrops, in waves that will tear us to pieces, in ice cold glasses toasting the living and the dead. Water can carve away at mountainsides over eons, or come crashing over the city in an instant. Animals, fugitives, loners, and crumbling signs of life swim through the depths of the MOUNTAIN GOATS' Getting Into Knives. Like an eight foot swell of blades, JOHN DARNIELLE, MATT DOUGLAS, PETER HUGHES