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Zopilote Machine
Folk · 1994 · 19 tracks

Zopilote Machine

The Mountain Goats

Nineteen tracks of hyper-literate folk recorded directly to a boombox. Violent acoustic strumming, tape hiss, and songs about mythology and survival.

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It sounds like a guy screaming poetry into a boombox until the tape almost melts, and it's perfect.

A frantic, hyper-literate explosion of nervous energy and survival instinct.

Zopilote Machine · vs · The Mountain Goats
High Energy+2.0σ

It runs far hotter than this artist's baseline.

Tracklist · 19 Tracks
01
Alpha Incipiens
1:37
02
Azo Tle Nelli in Tlalticpac?
3:03
03
Alpha Sun Hat
1:25
04
The Black Ice Cream Song
2:03
05
Sinaloan Milk Snake Song
2:14
06
We Have Seen the Enemy
1:54
07
Standard Bitter Love Song #7
2:23
08
Quetzalcoatl Eats Plums
2:25
09
Orange Ball of Love
2:12
10
Orange Ball of Hate
2:10
11
Bad Priestess
1:30
12
Going to Bristol
2:02
13
Young Caesar 2000
2:18
14
Going to Lebanon
2:29
15
Grendel's Mother
2:21
16
Song for Tura Satana
2:04
17
Alpha in Tauris
2:09
18
Going to Georgia
2:16
19
Quetzalcoatl Is Born
2:21
Moments Worth Waiting For
The violent, rhythmic thumping of the guitar body acting as a kick drum on Alpha Incipiens.
The sudden, jarring transition from the sweetness of Orange Ball of Love to the vitriol of Orange Ball of Hate.
The desperate, soaring vocal strain during the final chorus of Going to Georgia.
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