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The Life Of The World To Come

The Mountain Goats

The Life Of The World To Come

Indie folk-rock with a Biblical theme from the North Carolina act led by singer-songwriter John Darnielle

ADM rating[?]

7.3

Label
4AD
UK Release date
06/10/2009
  1. 9.0 |   PopMatters

    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
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  2. 8.5 |   The Quietus

    Heavy. Thoroughly, relentlessly heavy. Praise be once more, then, that most mp3 players weigh little more than a pebble. This is something you will want to carry with you.
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  3. 8.4 |   Pitchfork

    The music's intensity comes from Darnielle's restraint instead of being undermined it.
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  4. 8.0 |   Uncut

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  5. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    It is difficult to name another lyricist as apparently decisive and yet as audibly unconvinced by his own statements as Darnielle; his ability to describe the vapour of something and yet sound as startled as we are by his own accurate dissection is the most engaging aspect of his songwriting
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  6. 8.0 |   Spin

    Taut, unpretentious tunes that sound flawless and scan smartly
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  7. 8.0 |   Sputnik Music (staff)

    ...what Darnielle does best is write songs that can resonate with anybody, no matter their musical disposition, and in that respect Life is a tremendous success
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  8. 8.0 |   Blurt

    ...songs that are self-contained narratives and no more confident in their spirituality than were those on last year's Heretic Pride
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  9. 6.0 |   The Fly

    ...it’s still less immediate than some of his previous albums, especially last year’s sublime ‘Heretic Pride’
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  10. 6.0 |   NME

    Print edition only

  11. 6.0 |   musicOMH

    For the main part, The Life Of The World To Come is so familiar as The Mountain Goats that it seems rather lazy. At its worst it is MOR Christian rock saved by the contributions of Wurster, Hughes and Pallett
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  12. 6.0 |   Q

    Print edition only


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