One month from today, the always-busy Mountain Goats will release their new album Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan. It’s a concept LP about shipwreck survivors living on a desert island, and it’s dedicated to Peter Hughes, the longtime bassist who left the band last year. The Mountain Goats are releasing this one on their own Cadmean Dawn label, and band member Matt Douglas produced it. Lin-Manuel Miranda sings backup on multiple songs, and Replacements hero Tommy Stinson plays bass on a few. Crazy, right?
