Mountain Goats
The Coroner's Gambit
Originally released in October 2000, 'The Coroner's Gambit' finds John Darnielle between physical and sonic spaces. The album came together slowly; the Mountain Goats had released music every year from 1991 to 1998, but between the release of that year's 'New Asian Cinema' EP and 'The Coroner's Gambit,' 1999 passed without an official Mountain Goats release. The additional time that went into 'The Coroner's Gambit' paid off: it is a breakthrough for Darnielle as a songwriter and practitioner of the full-length album.