Traffic jams: Mountain goats
Last week, we interrupted our regularly scheduled Traffic Jam to bring you something special: Skalopnik Week. But in our arrogance, we made an important mistake – scheduling a full workweek to coincide with the release of our new Mountain Goats album. Sin is unforgivable, but a new song this week will hopefully ease things up.
“Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome” was released as a single by Bleed, but it’s still one of the best songs on the album. The entire LP (or dual LP, if you have a splash vinyl like I did) has quickly become one of my favorite Mountain Goats records in the band’s history.
Some of that credit may have been produced by Alicia Bognanno, bringing some of that Bully energy to JD and the crew, but most of it was composed by herself. These are the Power Chord Mountain Goats, and the Power Chord Mountain Goats rules.