Pre-Order the new album from the Mountain Goats, Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan, available November 7, 2025
The Mountain Goats, led by singer-songwriter John Darnielle, have built a prolific and influential career in indie music since the early 1990s. Known for their vast discography of storytelling and literary lyricism, Darnielle is regarded as one of the most distinctive voices in modern songwriting. Their work has a deep emotional resonance with their avid and loyal fanbase, built over the past 30 years.
Today, we find Darnielle awoken from a dream where he titled an album Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan, with no sense of sonic direction in the dream, then proceeded to write the entire album based off of this arbitrary title. Produced by the Mountain Goats’ multi-instrumentalist Matt Douglas, who also co-wrote several songs, the record is embracing, inviting, and overflowing with melody and orchestration that extends far beyond the boundaries of their past work.
1 Overture
2 Fishing Boat
3 Cold at Night
4 Dawn of Revelation
5 Your Bandage
6 Peru
7 Through This Fire
8 Rocks in My Pockets
9 Armies of the Lord
10 Your Glow
11 The Lady from Shanghai 2
12 Broken To Begin With
Shipping Update as of 8/26/25
Due to manufacturing delays, the estimated shipping window has shifted to the week of September 15, 2025. We will notify you of any further delay. We apologize for the inconvenience.
the Mountain Goats
Live Archive Vol. 1: Going to Princeton (10/20/24)
Jon and Matt rolled on from Chicago in the bus but I stayed behind because there was a chance to see my favorite band in the world: Souled American. For two nights I watched them make magic in a small room, in the company of others like me, people who'd been waiting and hoping for a long time. The morning after Souled American's second show I went from hotel to cab to airport to a train that took me to the McCarter Theatre. There were pictures of all the people who'd played there in years past on the walls backstage. Keith Jarrett, Pat Metheny, Cassandra Wilson. These are heroes of mine. We always try to be conscious of who's stood on a stage before we got there and to carry it forward a little. It was a special night in New Jersey.
3x LP on Mercer County Orange vinyl
Recorded live on 10/20/24 at the McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton, NJ
Not available on streaming services
Ship date TBC (estimated mid-late September) via Cadmean Dawn Records