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Heretic Pride
Folk · 2008 · 13 tracks · 44m

Heretic Pride

The Mountain Goats

Hyper-literate folk rock that trades domestic drama for pulp horror and mythological outcasts. Sharp, rhythmic, and pulsing with a nervous, defiant energy.

February 17, 2008 · 4AD

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A high-strung, cinematic defiance that finds beauty in the grotesque and the exiled.

Tracklist · 13 Tracks · 44m
01
Sax Rohmer #1
3:41
02
San Bernardino
3:19
03
Heretic Pride
3:42
04
Autoclave
3:34
05
New Zion
2:55
06
So Desperate
3:21
07
In the Craters on the Moon
3:32
08
Lovecraft in Brooklyn
3:50
09
Tianchi Lake
3:20
10
How to Embrace a Swamp Creature
3:27
11
Marduk T‐Shirt Men’s Room Incident
3:21
12
Sept 15th 1983
3:43
13
Michael Myers Resplendent
2:53
Moments Worth Waiting For
The frantic, jagged electric guitar riff that opens Lovecraft in Brooklyn, signaling a shift into pure paranoia.
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Where This Album DepartsEach spoke is a trait. The orange shape shows where this album pulls away from — or holds to — the rest of the artist’s catalogue. Tap for more.

How does Heretic Pride sound next to the rest of The Mountain Goats's catalogue?

High Energy+2.0σ

It runs far hotter than this artist's baseline.

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