The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee

John Darnielle's songs have always dwelled on one or a combination of five subjects: relationship comfilcts, food, water, pre-Colombian Mexico mythology and talking animals. This record conjures paranoid visions of a comple permanently on the cusp of divorce; who have remained drunk for so long, they're not sure of much else byeond the mutally destructive urge that holds their house together.

1) Tallahassee
2) First Few Desperate Hours
3) Southwood Plantation Road
4) Game Shows Touch Our Lives
5) The House That Dripped Blood
6) Idylls of the King
7) No Children
8) See America Right
9) Peacocks
10) International Small Arm14. Alpha Rats Traffic Blues
11) Have to Explode
12) Old College Try
13) Oceanographer
14) Alpha Rats Nest