Various: I Only Listen to the Mountain Goatst: All Hail West Texas 12″

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Merge Records presentsI Only Listen to the Mountain Goats: All Hail West Texas, a double-LP compiling the covers of each track from 2002’sAll Hail West Texasthat will be unveiled during the first season ofI Only Listen to the Mountain Goats, a unique new podcast from Night Vale Presents.I Only Listen to the Mountain Goatsis a remarkable conversation series featuring Welcome to Night Vale and Alice Isn’t Dead creatorJoseph FinkandNew York Timesbest-selling authorJohn Darnielle, who is also the founder, lead singer, and songwriter for theMountain Goats and Fink’s own personal artistic hero.

Season one focuses on the band’s seminalAll Hail West Texasalbum from 2002, and the conversations range from introspective to intense, and are always revelatory.Together, Fink and Darnielle take the listener on a deep dive into the world of creativity and the duality of being an artist and a fan, both by sharing their own creative processes and music-geek obsessions and through immersive chats with other notable musicians and writers.

Participating artists include Andrew Bird, Dessa, Carrie Elkin, Craig Finn, Laura Jane Grace, Holy Sons, Ibibio Sound Machine, Julian Koster, Loamlands, Erin McKeown, Mothers, Nana Grizol, Amanda Palmer, and Eliza Rickman & Jherek Bischoff.