The Mountain Goats continue their ever prolific ways with the announcement of their 24th studio album, Days . Due out August 7th via Cadmean Dawn Records, the 12-track LP comes just nine months after 2025’s (slightly wordier) Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan .

If Days ’ shorter album title seems a wee bit familiar, that’s likely on purpose. In a press release, frontman John Darnielle says the record “began life as Grunges , a sequel to [2017’s] Goths , after I made a joke on social media about writing a song called ‘Contemplating Pearl Jam in the Carolina Dawn.’” Similarly, Darnielle said that the LP’s recording also took place when “my wife left town for a two-week residency in Virginia,” adding that just such a spousal excursion (“[playing] hockey in Banff”) is “how All Hail West Texas happened.”

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The aforementioned two-week recording session was led up by producer John Congleton, with the band gathering at Sear Sound in Manhattan.…