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Instead, the music alternated between two narratives: one drawn from album “Tallahassee,” the other from this year’s “The Sunset Tree.” The first is a series of histrionic confessionals by a fictional narrator, while the second drops the overblown emotionality for more somber autobiographical reflection...
...this changed, however, in The Mountain Goats’ two latest albums, “We Shall All Be Healed” and “The Sunset Tree.” Studio-recorded (the latter in coordination with musician John Vanderslice) with a more refined sound and wider instrumentation, these albums have been received with reservations by fans accustomed to the raw truthfulness of previous work. In addition, both albums abandon the traditional song-series and their fictional narratives, telling instead an autobiographical account of Darnielle’s childhood. Writing closer to home, Darnielle drops the overbearing hysterics...
...Five,” Darnielle promised us, instead, a song “just like Cubs in Five, except it’s all about death and loss.” At the center of his set, he placed one of the closing pieces of “Sunset Tree,” the usually somber elegy “Love Love Love.” The song starts at the periphery of a child’s education: “King Saul fell on his sword…and Joseph’s brother sold him down...
Meanwhile, Escareño, who is using video to document the site, reviews the day’s footage on an LCD screen. The camera follows a trail of red-orange fungus that streaks across his tree. He is working in what he calls “the cemetery of the cemetery”—where gardeners dispose of organic waste. “I almost got hit today,” he says of the rain of tree branches over the area...
...06’s first experience with drawing—she pulls a stack of sketches full of knotted, organic tangles out of her work drawer. However, her main focus in the class right now is a sculptural project. “I found a dead tree and am trying to re-animate it,” she explains. She searches the area for parts the tree needs: she has stripped bark from branches, and found it roots (“they’re kind of like offerings?...